Re: Application vs programme

Jean-Pierre Kuypers <Kuypers@address.invalid> a écrit ou cité :

Le terme "application" était déjà utilisé en mars 1985, donc avant le
smartphone.

  Voici le mot dans un texte de 1976 (par Edsger Dijkstra).
  Bien qu'il ne soit pas évident que le mot fasse référence à des
  programmes, il donne une idée de l'origine de cette dénomination.

|When the guarded commands had emerged and the word got
|around, a graduate student that was occupying himself mainly
|with business-oriented computer applications expressed his
|doubts as to whether our approaches were of any value outside
|(what he called) the scientific/technical applications area.
|To support his doubt he confronted us with what he regarded
|as a typical business application, viz. the updating of a
|sequential file. (For a more precise statement of his
|problem, see below.)

  (« viz. » est un mot typique de Dijkstra.)

  Tiré de la revue « Popular Electronics » de 1979 :

|Unlike a calculator - and we're presenting an under-$90
|scientific calculator in this issue, too - computers can make
|logical decisions for an accounting system, navigation computer,
|time-shared computer, sophisticated intrusion system, and
|thousands of other applications. The "power" of Altair 8800
|is such that it can handle many programs simultaneously.

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