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Where does Murphy come from?
by jgauth 4y ago
Where does Murphy come from?
- layer8 4y agoMurphy’s Law.
- mavxg 4y agoMurphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
- adamauckland 4y agoI'm guessing something to do with Murphy's law
- dools 4y agoEveryone else beat me to the explanation. The "Murphy" in Murphy's law also worked specifically on RocketSleds which is where the term "Murphy's Law" came from: "Following the end of hostilities, in 1947 Murphy attended the United States Air Force Institute of Technology, becoming R&D Officer at the Wright Air Development Center of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. It was while here that he became involved in the high-speed rocket sled experiments (USAF project MX981, 1949) which led to the coining of Murphy's law." I was very pleasantly surprised by this coincindence when I was looking for a name for my testing package to go with my RocketSled framework. I named the framework RocketSled before I wrote the testing package, with no idea about the history of the term Murphy's Law. Interesting side note: murphytest lives on to this day as an NPM package, I still use the same approach to testing stuff now (ie. not worrying about any of the tenets of "Unit Testing", a practise which I called "Convergence Testing" at the time, but which probably already has a name, like Integration Testing maybe). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_A._Murphy_Jr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_A._Murphy_Jr.