From: gregm@netidea.com (Greg Martin)
Subject: Re: Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality
Date: 1999/12/08
Date: 1999-12-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <384eabe7.13628242@news.netidea.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 82kv5j$k6p$1@nnrp1.deja.com
On Wed, 08 Dec 1999 06:51:31 GMT, Robert Dewar
<robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
>In article <82hk54$cbc$1@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net>,
> Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>> Software development is the only engineering wannabee that
>> euphemizes its mistakes with the cutsey monicker, "bug."
>
>
>Seeing as the first recorded use of this word is by Thomas
>Edison, in connectin with work on some electronics, this
>seems a dubious claim.
>
A person I worked for some 15 years ago had been a programmer since
the days of relays for logic circuits. He claimed the word came from
instances of insects preventing the closing of relays and hence the
phrase "a bug in the program". Prehaps not accurate but amusing myth
making none-the-less!
Regards,
Greg Martin.
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-01 0:00 Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality Michael P. Card
1999-12-01 0:00 ` ld
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Michael P. Card
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Michael P. Card
1999-12-07 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-08 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-09 0:00 ` John English
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Greg Martin [this message]
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Roger Racine
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Roger Racine
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Jerry Maple
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-14 0:00 ` P.S> Norby
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Jeffrey L Straszheim
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-02 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-12-12 0:00 ` Ronald Caudill
1999-12-13 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-12-13 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
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