Tony Pursell: > Use of the word 'program' for computer program was in a book > I used to have with a title something like 'British Standard > Terms in Data Processing', published by the BSI back in > the1960s!. And people still get it wrong...
I remember correcting my primary school teacher on this point in about 1980. It's a common problem with texts localised from the US, though--they tend to replace 'program' with 'programme' globally, not realising that UK English has adopted the American spelling in the specific sense of a computer program. jim -- Jim Cameron Software Engineer Buhler Sortex Limited Research and Development Department 20 Atlantis Avenue London E16 2BF Registered in England No. 434274 T +44(0)20 7055 7607 F +44(0)20 7055 7701 Mail to: jim.came...@buhlersortex.com www.buhlersortex.com This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential, may be legally privileged and is designated exclusively for the intended recipient. Access by any other person is not authorised. Any disclosure of this e-mail or of names of persons mentioned therein as well as any storing, copying, distribution and dissemination is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail and notify the sender by phone or by e-mail. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
