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We commented three weeks ago that the computer studies exam paper that used the spelling "programme" was old-skool.
"It must be very old indeed - the spelling 'program' was adopted at the 1953 Conference on High Speed Digital Computers held at the National Physical Laboratory," says Ross Morton.

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