Free computer programmes.

BillScarab

bat999 wrote: »

He's right Orsen.
In UK we use 'program' with computers in deference to the Americans because they pioneered the subject.:cool:

Nice website though, and thanks for the free software.;)

Did the Americans really pioneer the subject? What about Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace?

Inactive

They certainly seem to have come up with the term; Weapons of Mass Destruction and applied it to the non existent.. :rolleyes:

superscaper

Inactive wrote: »

Well " programme " will always be " programme "

Well there's no such thing as a static language (I bet even Esperanto has to evolve). Because I'm so poor with my spelling and grammar I tend to use OED as my reference for what any "official" spelling should be, so I go by that. As I've mentioned I've probably picked up a few Americanisms anyway so I'm a contradiction of being pedantic and yet more "susceptible to American English".

superscaper

BillScarab wrote: »

Did the Americans really pioneer the subject? What about Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace?

I don't know of any computer languages where I would have got away with using British spellings.

superscaper

Inactive wrote: »

They certainly seem to have come up with the term; Weapons of Mass Destruction and applied it to the non existent.. :rolleyes:

And we certainly followed suit and applied it ourselves. :rolleyes:

Inactive

superscaper wrote: »

And we certainly followed suit and applied it ourselves. :rolleyes:

Well Blair certainly did.. and the sheep followed the American/ Bush Lie, like lambs to the slaughter..

Oh well.

superscaper

Inactive wrote: »

Well Blair certainly did.. and the sheep followed the American/ Bush Lie, like lambs to the slaughter..

Oh well.

Guess this is going quite off topic now but it always reminds me of some standup (can't remember who) that said America was like the big bully in the playground and Britain was like the scrawny little kid sidekick who shook his fist and shouted "yeah" from safely behind the bully. It was an image that stuck and seemed appropriate. Of course I'm only talking about the countries' governments and not the people.

nullogik

Getting back on to the original topic...another good website to have a look at is https://www.filehippo.com - just ignore the stuff in banners down the side.

superscaper

nullogik wrote: »

Getting back on to the original topic...another good website to have a look at is https://www.filehippo.com - just ignore the stuff in banners down the side.

I do find their udc [STRIKE]program[/STRIKE] application quite useful in searching for updates.

Inactive

superscaper wrote: »

I do find their udc [STRIKE]program[/STRIKE] application quite useful in searching for updates.

:T :T :T

I like it...