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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality
Date: 1999/12/08
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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.


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