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echo: aviation
to: BILL WUNSCH
from: VINCE COEN
date: 1998-04-20 22:34:00
subject: acronym

Hello Bill!
Thursday April 16 1998, Bill Wunsch writes to Jim Sanders:
 >>> KISS (keep it simple, stupid)
 >>> TLAR (that looks about right)
How about FTFM (Read the Flipping [could be another word] manual).
 BW> What wasn't stolen from somewhere else?  They still can't aggree on 
here
 BW> the term "bug" came from, as in buggy software or equipment.
That came from Grace Hopper (US naval officer) and an early Cobol programmer 
slightly relating to watching a insect crawl over a program listing/printout 
that had one or more problems.
Vince
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