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From: Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality
Date: 1999/12/08
Date: 1999-12-08T22:26:57+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <82mlvh$mb0$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: yecyab5f8lg.fsf@king.cts.com

In article <yecyab5f8lg.fsf@king.cts.com>,
	Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com> wrote:

>That incident actually occurred, on September 9, 1947.  The "bug" was
>a moth in a relay of the Mark II, which was removed and pasted into
>the logbook by Grace Murray Hopper.  There's a photo at
><http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Bug.GIF>.
>
>It's clear from the wording of the log entry, "First actual case of
>bug being found", that the term "bug" was already in use.

Excellent example of a "bug" as something that enters your product
from outside.  We find the same kind of "bug" in the form of cosmic
radiation in satellites.  This is a correct use of "bug."  What 
programmers usually call a "bug" is a defect due to some mistake.  
That "bug" was created by us through ommission or commission.

Richard Riehle 




  reply	other threads:[~1999-12-08  0:00 UTC|newest]

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     ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-08  0:00       ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-08  0:00       ` Greg Martin
1999-12-08  0:00         ` Keith Thompson
1999-12-08  0:00           ` Richard D Riehle [this message]
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                     ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-12-10  0:00                     ` Roger Racine
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
1999-12-08  0:00     ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-08  0:00       ` jim_snead
1999-12-09  0:00         ` John English
1999-12-09  0:00           ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-09  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
1999-12-02  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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