On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 09:07:30 -0000, "sean neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >According to the OED 'program' was the original spelling and 'programme' >was imported from the French, because at that time (1830s) it usually >referred to music etc. I remember being extremely severely ticked off >for writing about a 'programme' in my early days with computers and >being told that in this sense it was of American origin. > >Sean > Wasn't the computer invented by the Englishman Babbage ?. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbage -- Malcolm
