Greetings, Vince!
On 20 Apr 98, Vince Coen entered the following ASCII codes for the express
viewing pleasure of Bill Wunsch:
VC>
BW>> What wasn't stolen from somewhere else? They still can't aggree on
where
BW>> the term "bug" came from, as in buggy software or equipment.
VC>
VC> That came from Grace Hopper (US naval officer) and an early Cobol
VC> programmer slightly relating to watching a insect crawl over a program
VC> listing/printout that had one or more problems.
That's one story, but there are others.
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