10 Dec
2017
10 Dec
'17
12:03 a.m.
Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
We gained Rear Admiral Grace Hopper on this day in
1906; known as "Amazing
Grace", she was a remarkable woman, both in computers and the Navy.
No argument there.
She coined the term "debugging" when she
extracted a moth from a set of
relay contacts from a computer (the Harvard Mk I) and wrote "computer
debugged" in the log, taping the deceased Lepidoptera in there as well.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugging#Origin_of_the_term which
indicates that "bug" and "debugging" had been around as technical
terms long before that incident.
Otherwise, yes, an amazing person.
Arnold