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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
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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