From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com)
Subject: [TUHS] Grace Hopper
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2017 11:03:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201712091803.vB9I3AYQ006833@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1712091022311.35694@aneurin.horsfall.org>
Dave Horsfall <dave at 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-09 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-08 23:26 Dave Horsfall
2017-12-09 0:05 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-09 0:39 ` Mike Markowski
2017-12-09 3:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-09 10:04 ` Jason Stevens
2017-12-09 17:31 ` Paul Winalski
2017-12-09 20:03 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-12-09 18:03 ` arnold [this message]
2017-12-09 23:17 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-09 23:41 ` [TUHS] Origin of "bug" (was: Grace Hopper) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-12-10 0:30 ` Bakul Shah
2017-12-10 3:20 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-12-08 20:04 [TUHS] Grace Hopper Dave Horsfall
2018-12-09 3:31 ` ron minnich
2018-12-09 16:19 ` arnold
2017-12-09 1:08 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2017-12-09 2:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-09 2:47 ` William Cheswick
2017-12-09 2:47 ` Dan Cross
2016-11-27 11:20 Rudi Blom
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