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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: 1999/12/09
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In article <384eabe7.13628242@news.netidea.com>,
  gregm@netidea.com (Greg Martin) wrote:
> 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!


Well the proper origin of this story is Grace Hopper's
well known description of an instance of exactly this problem.

The mistake is that this is NOT the origin of the use of the
word bug with respect to computer programs.


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