16 Jun
2021
16 Jun
'21
11:57 p.m.
Bakul Shah wrote in
<C964FEBE-BBE3-4A87-9F2F-E5C277053D85(a)iitbombay.org>:
|> On Jun 15, 2021, at 8:48 PM, Rob Pike <robpike(a)gmail.com> wrote:
|> There are citations from Edison in the 19th century using the word, \
|> and a quote somewhere by Maurice Wilkes about the stairwell moment \
|> when he realized much of the rest of his life would be spent finding \
|> programming errors.
|>
|> That moth was not the first bug, nor the first "bug", it was the \
|> first recorded "actual bug".
|>
|> -rob
|https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-institute/ieee-history/did-you-know-edison\
|-coined-the-term-bug
Interesting, thanks! 1947, then.
As you know well the BSD people dropped their calendar instead of
fixing it.
|Like Edison, she (Grace Hopper) was recalling the word’s older origins \
|in the Welsh bwg, the Scottish bogill or bogle, the German bögge, and \
(Only to clarify that „bögge“ is not a German word to the best of my
knowledge. I was looking, as it sounded so »northern«, there is
»Bodden« for example (a small bay with a very small aperture to
the sea), but no?)
|the Middle English bugge: the hobgoblins of pre-modern life, resurrected \
|in the 19th century as, to paraphrase philosopher Gilbert Ryle, ghosts \
|in the machine.
That not me. If me, then Schopenhauer. I also do not like the
Brainfuck language, for example. You know, if you have to go
somewhere ... In some Bhuddhistic monasteries, for example, monks
sit cross-legged in front of walls for hours each day. If you
really want, that will help, if you have learned the lesson.
Working in a kitchen garden is also advisable, you can reap.
|Electrical circuits can have "bad connections" so I do wonder if Edison \
|coined this word based on "ghost like" faults that magically appear \
|and disappear!
I seem to recall now that the bug story was clarified in the past
already? Now it is for me anyway, thank you all for that. I was
looking at BSD calendar mail and had a go.
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)