RIP: Betty Holberton

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Wed Dec 12 13:24:16 2001

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:

> > On December 11, jpero_at_sympatico.ca wrote:
> > > Look to /.
> > >
> > > This is one whom coined the bug and debugging I think. :-)
> >
> > If you're talking about the terms, that was Rr. Adm. Grace Hopper.
>
> She coined "debug"; the the use of the word "bug" to denote
> a flaw in a design was in common use in Edison's time; some
> claim it was coined by early telegraphers.
>
> -dq

My recollection from one of her presentations some years ago was that
she claimed to have found the first computer bug in the Eniac - a moth
IIRC - and debugged it by removing said moth.

She was a pretty level headed and down to earth lady.

                                                 - don
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