On Jul 18, 2009, at 2:27 AM, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
Probably just because British English took it from American English. It’ssimilar to the “German” word “Computer”. It’s not native.
The spelling "program" goes back to 1633 at least; it cannot then have referred to computers, and is not likely to have been an American import. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
