From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 17:14:23 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [COFF] Origins of bugs (was: Happy birthday, Grace Hopper!)
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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