From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [COFF] Origins of bugs (was: Happy birthday, Grace Hopper!)
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 17:14:23 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1912131712460.963@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191209005621.GB95360@eureka.lemis.com>
On Mon, 9 Dec 2019, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> FWIW, the term "debug" predates this incident. OED has:
[...]
Thanks for that.
> My understanding is that Hopper would have known this usage, and the
> real point of this story was that she found a real live bug causing the
> bug, a kind of physical pun.
Quite likely...
-- Dave
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2019-12-08 23:50 [COFF] Happy birthday, Grace Hopper! dave
2019-12-09 0:56 ` [COFF] Origins of bugs (was: Happy birthday, Grace Hopper!) grog
2019-12-13 6:14 ` dave [this message]
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