From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e4b2dce209393666 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: gregm@netidea.com (Greg Martin) Subject: Re: Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality Date: 1999/12/08 Message-ID: <384eabe7.13628242@news.netidea.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 558250366 References: <82hk54$cbc$1@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net> <82kv5j$k6p$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Trace: typ11.nn.bcandid.com 944680114 207.194.161.233 (Wed, 08 Dec 1999 14:08:34 EST) Organization: bCandid - Powering the world's discussions - http://bCandid.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 14:08:34 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 08 Dec 1999 06:51:31 GMT, Robert Dewar wrote: >In article <82hk54$cbc$1@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net>, > Richard D Riehle 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.