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bugs also used to be real bugs

• valarauca1 10y ago
  For those interested Grace Hopper helped popularize this term In 1946, when Hopper was released from active duty, she joined the Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory where she continued her work on the Mark II and Mark III. Operators traced an error in the Mark II to a moth trapped in a relay, coining the term bug. This bug was carefully removed and taped to the log book. Stemming from the first bug, today we call errors or glitches in a program a bug. Reference (wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug Reference (which wikipedia cites) http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Hopper.Danis.html http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Hopper.Danis.html
  • haylem 10y ago
    Grace Hopper (grasshopper) popularizing bugs... Can't make this stuff up.
• hk__2 10y ago
  That’s not true. The word “bug” has been used for problems in engineering well before computers; the funny story we all heard about a moth trapped in a relay causing a _bug_ in the Harvard Mark II is from 1947. Edison himself used the word back in 1878. The Wikipedia article about “Software bug” is pretty interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug#Etymology