Lking Posted May 1, 2019 Posted May 1, 2019 Quote Me personally, hoping a bug (unfortunate name ... Fun fact: "The first computer bug was a moth" In 1980 when I met Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, then 74, one of the stories she told was about the "First computer bug." During WW II the (US) Navy assigned her to work on/program the Harvard Mark 1 computer. She said one of her jobs was to maintain the maintenance log. (I guess in 1940s that wasn't a sexist blunder). She reported that one morning while fixing one of the frequent failures, a moth was found in one of the may (mechanical) relays. She documented the failure and the fix "taping the bug in the log."
MIG Posted May 1, 2019 Posted May 1, 2019 4 hours ago, Lking said: "taping the bug in the log." Excellent story Master, 'cept for the deader bug 😭.
lisati Posted May 1, 2019 Posted May 1, 2019 Ah, yes, Grace Hopper. I once saw a photo of said moth. Didn't she (Ms. Hopper) have some connection with the initial development of COBOL?
Lking Posted May 1, 2019 Author Posted May 1, 2019 Yes she did. Coming from assembly language & FORTRAN I always thought COBOL was verbose "(self documenting" aside).
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