10 Dec
2017
10 Dec
'17
5:41 a.m.
On Sunday, 10 December 2017 at 10:17:54 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Sat, 9 Dec 2017, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
I need to investigate that further (I'd hate to spread misinformation,
which is why I enjoy being corrected, esp. in public).
I was going to pipe up here, but I wasn't sure if it would be
interesting. The Oxford English Dictionary has a first reference to
in this sense in 1875:
5. orig. 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.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Mar. 1/1 Mr. Edison, I was informed, had
been up the two previous nights discovering âa bugâ in his
phonographâan expression for solving a difficulty, and
implying that some imaginary insect has secreted itself inside
and is causing all the trouble.
Grace Hopper's bug doesn't get a mention.
Greg
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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.