From owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Wed Jul 21 05:07:01 2004 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-domo Delivered-To: sc22wg5-domo@ghz.klid.dk Received: by ghz.klid.dk (Postfix, from userid 521) id EF2BA3763E; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 05:07:00 +0200 (CET DST) X-Original-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from dkuug.dk (ptah.dkuug.dk [195.215.30.66]) by ghz.klid.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8225F37635 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 05:06:58 +0200 (CET DST) Received: from smtprep.jpl.nasa.gov (smtprep.jpl.nasa.gov [137.78.160.184]) by dkuug.dk (8.12.10/8.9.2) with ESMTP id i6L35Y1K018881 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 05:05:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from vsnyder@mls.jpl.nasa.gov) Received: from eis-msg-mx01.jpl.nasa.gov (eis-msg-mx01.jpl.nasa.gov [137.78.160.64]) by smtprep.jpl.nasa.gov (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6L1EcYN008336 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:14:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mls.jpl.nasa.gov by eis-msg-mx01.jpl.nasa.gov with ESMTP; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:14:38 -0700 Received: from math.jpl.nasa.gov (math.jpl.nasa.gov [137.79.7.57]) by mls.jpl.nasa.gov (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2) with ESMTP id i6L1EbmI012468 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:14:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from math.jpl.nasa.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by math.jpl.nasa.gov (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6L1Ebsk026410 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:14:37 -0700 Received: from math.jpl.nasa.gov (vsnyder@localhost) by math.jpl.nasa.gov (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) with ESMTP id i6L1EbZt026406 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:14:37 -0700 Message-Id: <200407210114.i6L1EbZt026406@math.jpl.nasa.gov> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Van.Snyder@jpl.nasa.gov From: Van.Snyder@jpl.nasa.gov To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Subject: Origin of term "bug" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:14:37 -0700 X-Spam-Score: 0.339 () NO_REAL_NAME Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk Status: R Notwithstand Admiral Grace Murray Hopper's assertion that she coined the term "debug" and its derivative term "bug" when she found a moth being smashed in the contacts of a relay in the Harvard Mark II computer, she in fact didn't coin the term -- although it may have been new to her. See http://www.byte.com/art/9404/sec15/art1.htm -- Van Snyder | What fraction of Americans believe Van.Snyder@jpl.nasa.gov | Wrestling is real and NASA is fake? Any alleged opinions are my own and have not been approved or disapproved by JPL, CalTech, NASA, Sean O'Keefe, George Bush, the Pope, or anybody else.