16 Jun
2021
16 Jun
'21
7:06 a.m.
On Tuesday, 15 June 2021 at 18:54:47 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 6:25 PM Steffen Nurpmeso
<steffen(a)sdaoden.eu> wrote:
Correct. The Oxford English Dictionary has two overlapping
definitions (along with dozens of others). In each case I've shown
the earliest attestation:
5. Originally U.S.
a. A defect or fault in a machine (esp. an electrical or electronic
one), or in a process, etc.
1875 Operator 15 Aug. 5/1 The biggest âbugâ yet has been
discovered in the U.S. Hotel Electric Annunciator.
b. Computing. An error or other cause of malfunction in a computer
program, piece of software, etc.
1952 Rev. Electronic Digital Computers
(Amer. Inst. Electr. Engineers) 18/2 The week we spent in
getting the last bug out of our instruction program was an
investment we hated to have to make.
It's interesting that they differentiate between the two.
Greg
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As not being hard-to-the-core i may have missed
it, but also in
1951, in March, the wonderful Grace Hopper "conceives the first
compiler, called A-O and later released as Math-Matic. Hopper is
also credited with coining the term 'bug' following an incident
involving a moth and a Mark II.
Yes, but wrongly. The label next to the moth is "First actual case of bug
being found", and the word "actual" shows that the slang term already
existed then.