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: Keith Thompson Subject: Re: Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality Date: 1999/12/08 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 558289767 Sender: kst@king.cts.com References: <82hk54$cbc$1@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net> <82kv5j$k6p$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <384eabe7.13628242@news.netidea.com> X-Trace: thoth.cts.com 944687036 9569 198.68.168.21 (8 Dec 1999 21:03:56 GMT) Organization: CTS Network Services Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@cts.com Date: 1999-12-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: gregm@netidea.com (Greg Martin) writes: > 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! 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 . 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. For more information, see . -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@cts.com San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> "Oh my gosh! You are SO ahead of your time!" -- anon.