Re: Hypatia inventions
david friedman (ddfr@best.com)
Sun, 16 Mar 1997 21:46:46 -0800 (PST)
>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