[TUHS] 70th anniversary of (official) programming errors

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
 <20210618210047.5uogF%steffen at sdaoden.eu>:
 |John Cowan wrote in
 | <CAD2gp_So8VQE4ApVSAHmNgQOKNGbaBbaizovxweu2+DJnx-NKQ at mail.gmail.com>:
 ||On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 5:57 PM Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen at sdaoden.eu> \
 ||wrote:
 ||> (Only to clarify that „bögge“ is not a German word to the best of my
 ||> knowledge.  I was looking, as it sounded so »northern«,
 ||
 ||And so it is: it's Low Saxon, and also exists in the compound form
 ||"böggel-mann", plainly cognate to British English "bogeyman", American
 ||English "boogeyman".  Or borrowed one way or the other: there is so much
 ||borrowing and convergence in the Germanic languages around the North and
 ||Baltic Seas that if we did not know the older varieties of these languages
 ||we would never be able to work out just how they are related.
 |
 |This surely leads to nowhere without going into detail, and that
 |is hard in respect to the dramatical losses that happened on
 |archives etc., due to whatever reason.  You may confuse personal
 |opinion.  That happens.

Hrhrm.  Also it was shortly before the museum was torn into
pieces.  Who knows what the journalist asked?  Mary Brandel??
Ferry Cross The Mersey, so to say.  When i try to interpret the
actual "sound" of that timeline[1], then "..Hopper is also
credited.." sounds like an addition that crossed one's mind, out
of the actual timeline topic, and so it *seems to me* as if the
collocutor could not be blamed.  Says my gut.

  [1] https://books.google.de/books?id=Y-SUlMt64SoC&pg=PT70&lpg=PT70&dq=census+bureau+bug+1951&source=bl&ots=hulQqmNIT8&sig=ACfU3U2Pdy2HzVAVdzMNq2LUBOqDEpkJLQ&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwip8MDx0ZrxAhVF3aQKHWB0AUcQ6AEwEnoECBEQAw#v=onepage&q=census%20bureau%20bug%201951&f=false

A nice weekend i wish from Germany,

--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)