From: david friedman (ddfr@best.com)
Date: Sun Mar 16 1997 - 22:46:46 MST
>Eugene Leitl wrote:
>
>> Not to forget Grace Hopper (Gracehopper?), who ever found the first
>> _true_ bug in her program. It is purported to have been a moth, though.
>>
>It was a moth. Its wings got caught tween some relay contacts.
The trouble with this widely believed story is that, as you can easily
check in an old dictionary, "bug" as a printer's term for "error" long
predates electronic computers.
David Friedman
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