No, xe addressed that point quite explicitly: "Whoever wrote that famous 1947 log entry [...] was making a joke." The sad fact is that one can find people repe

No, xe addressed that point quite explicitly: "Whoever wrote that famous 1947 log entry [...] was making a joke." The sad fact is that one can find people repeating this tale and incorrectly attributing the origin of the term to Hopper. I'd have to pull my old back issues of BYTE out of storage to check that the January 1984 one did misattribute this as claimed, but it was definitely still a subject for discussion in the BYTE letters pages in 1985.