From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id ca722661 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2018 16:20:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 56284A1F03; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 02:20:10 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC74DA1CF1; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 02:19:39 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 9F525A1CF1; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 02:19:37 +1000 (AEST) Received: from frenzy.freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E3817A1CEA for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 02:19:36 +1000 (AEST) X-Envelope-From: arnold@skeeve.com Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by frenzy.freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id wB9GJ661028873 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 9 Dec 2018 09:19:06 -0700 Received: (from arnold@localhost) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id wB9GJ0qB028870; Sun, 9 Dec 2018 09:19:00 -0700 From: arnold@skeeve.com Message-Id: <201812091619.wB9GJ0qB028870@freefriends.org> X-Authentication-Warning: frenzy.freefriends.org: arnold set sender to arnold@skeeve.com using -f Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2018 09:19:00 -0700 To: tuhs@tuhs.org, dave@horsfall.org References: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [TUHS] Grace Hopper X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Hi Dave. We went through this last year: Dave Horsfall 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. She > coined the term "debugging" According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugging#Origin_of_the_term: The terms "bug" and "debugging" are popularly attributed to Admiral Grace Hopper in the 1940s.[1] While she was working on a Mark II computer at Harvard University, her associates discovered a moth stuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation, whereupon she remarked that they were "debugging" the system. However, the term "bug", in the sense of "technical error", dates back at least to 1878 and Thomas Edison (see software bug for a full discussion). Similarly, the term "debugging" seems to have been used as a term in aeronautics before entering the world of computers. Indeed, in an interview Grace Hopper remarked that she was not coining the term[citation needed]. The moth fit the already existing terminology, so it was saved. A letter from J. Robert Oppenheimer (director of the WWII atomic bomb "Manhattan" project at Los Alamos, NM) used the term in a letter to Dr. Ernest Lawrence at UC Berkeley, dated October 27, 1944,[2] regarding the recruitment of additional technical staff. Please update your notes ... Thanks, Arnold