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Re: RPG Trivia

  • Subject: Re: RPG Trivia
  • From: Douglas Handy <dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 12:35:21 -0400
 
Leif,

>> >>>I'm not sure if the lady you mention was Grace Hopper who is credited
>> with inventing the term bug - 
>
>Thomas Edison "invented" the term "bug"

I thought it was Grace Hopper, who after finding a moth had caused a short in a
wiring board (an early method of programming), said "there was a bug in the
program".

Or at least that is the story as I heard it long ago...

Doug
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