[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on the BBC!!!

Tony Pursell ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk
Wed Oct 21 23:26:34 BST 2009


On 21 Oct 2009 at 22:29, LeeGroups wrote:
> >   
> That page got right up my nose....
> 
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> Firstly, "computer program" isn't spelt "programme", that would be a 
> "television programme".

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...

Tony






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