[COFF] Origins of bugs (was: Happy birthday, Grace Hopper!)

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Fri Dec 13 16:14:23 AEST 2019


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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