Comment by jaapz
8 hours ago
Kind of similar to the story about the origins of the word "bug" in software
If this would have caught on we might have called bugs mice
8 hours ago
Kind of similar to the story about the origins of the word "bug" in software
If this would have caught on we might have called bugs mice
Too many people remember the “bug” story as “Grace Hopper invented the term ‘bug’” when the real takeaway is “Grace Hopper was very funny.”
And in colloquial speak, a grasshopper is, of course, a bug.
Isn't that story more myth than reality?
The history section of the Wikipedia entry for "bug" [1] suggests it predates computers by decades.
1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_(engineering)
It's also more moth than reality.
Moths are, technically [0], not bugs.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiptera
I don't think there's a precise scientific definition of "bug"
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This is the kind of response I appreciate. Thank you!
The actual story is not myth. It just isn't the origin of the term.
Hopper's note didn't suggest the word was new, but was funny exactly because it was not.
Right, good correction. It's the origin part that's the myth.