Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: AC-Vector, AC-Colour and AC-EasyRaster-GTK

On Jul 18, 2009, at 2:27 AM, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:

Probably just because British English took it from American English. It’s similar 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.