HISTORY MYSTERY: ORIGIN OF THE TERM DEBUGGING

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Ever wondered where the term debugging came from?
 Well, it has an interesting history. 
 
On September 9, 1947,Grace Murray Hopper records the first computer bug in the Harvard Mark II computer's log book.

 In this case, it literally was a bug. Operators including William Burke found a ... Moth, between the relays on the Harvard Mark II Computer they were working on. 

In those days, computers were large enough to fill rooms, and the warmth of its internal components attracted moths, flies and bugs...

Although the term 'bug in a computer' has been used before, it became widely popular after Grace Hopper wrote, "First actual case of bug being found" in the log book.
 
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Since then, the term Debugging the bug became really popular. 


 This is how computers during late 1940s looked like.
  HARVARD MARK II 

 check more about Harvard Mark II wiki
Grace Murray Hopper

Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Murray Hopper was a remarkable woman who grandly rose to the challenges of programming the first computers. During her lifetime as a leader in the field of software development concepts, she contributed to the transition from primitive programming techniques to the use of sophisticated compilers. She believed that "we've always done it that way" was not necessarily a good reason to continue to do so. 
Check out more about Grace hopper on her wiki.


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