From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] 70th anniversary of (official) programming errors
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 00:16:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210615221659.ltbL6%steffen@sdaoden.eu> (raw)
Not Unix in particular.
At least in Germany it is already the 16th, and my BSD calendar
notifies that "first programming error is encountered at the
U. S. Census Bureau".
As not being hard-to-the-core i may have missed it, but also in
1951, in March, the wonderful Grace Hopper "conceives the first
compiler, called A-O and later released as Math-Matic. Hopper is
also credited with coining the term 'bug' following an incident
involving a moth and a Mark II.
All (hm!) according to COMPUTERWORLD January 18th, 1999 (i was
young!), with assistance of the Computer Museum of Boston.
Like McCartney said in the legendary 1999 concert at the Cavern
club, the first after his wonderful wife Linda died, "See, with
this band, if we don't get it right ... we start again!".
Thank you.
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
next reply other threads:[~2021-06-15 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-15 22:16 Steffen Nurpmeso [this message]
2021-06-15 22:54 ` John Cowan
2021-06-15 23:44 ` Dan Cross
2021-06-16 3:48 ` Rob Pike
2021-06-16 4:13 ` Bakul Shah
2021-06-16 21:57 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-18 20:19 ` John Cowan
2021-06-18 21:00 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-18 22:59 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-19 13:34 ` Harald Arnesen
2021-06-19 13:39 ` Niklas Karlsson
2021-06-19 7:57 ` [TUHS] Bugs, Bööge and Bogeymen (was: 70th anniversary of (official) programming errors) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-06-19 15:48 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-19 15:52 ` Niklas Karlsson
2021-06-19 16:36 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-19 21:05 ` Harald Arnesen
2021-06-20 3:30 ` arnold
2021-06-16 1:06 ` [TUHS] Bug etymology " Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-06-16 8:16 [TUHS] 70th anniversary of (official) programming errors Jason Stevens
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