BThe Blacke Arte of Program Debugging
The use of the term “bug” to describe a problem with a computer is usually attributed to the computing pioneer Admiral Grace Murray Hopper in 1947. When colleagues traced a fault in Harvard University’s Mark II Computer to a moth stuck in Relay 70 of Panel F, she remarked that they were “debugging” the system. The remains of the moth can still be seen in the log book entry for that day.
Theodore Rubin once said, “The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.” That’s true of bugs too. The problem is not that there are bugs. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having bugs is a problem. Unfortunately, we spend much ...
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