Why we call them bugs???

Nagy Vilmos

I'm even wearing my specially cut suit that 'hides the bulge'.

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tgrt

Well if we're going to stick with the wussy, politically correct theme that is popular today we'd go with something like: operational variance.

Mehdi Gholam

You can call them "unwanted features"

Its the man, not the machine - Chuck Yeager If at first you don't succeed... get a better publicist If the final destination is death, then we should enjoy every second of the journey.

The Great Kazoo

The first bug, on September 9, 1945, was an actual bug.

Peter Mulholland

Didn't microsoft already try that? I don't think anyone fell for it then either. :-D

Pete

Lost User

But then we miaswell get ahead of the business and acronym it. OV sounds lame. Lets call it OpVars :D

Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.

Michael Bergman

sujit0761 wrote:

Why we call them bugs???

Because calling them "Bob" would be just plain silly.

m.bergman

-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

Marc Clifton

OK, here's a few suggestions: Damn, my program has an Obama! You found a Republican? I'll get right on it! I'll need a screenshot of that Democrat before I can determine how to correct for that behavior. There are too many Politicians in the current implementation. I strongly suggest a complete re-design. Marc

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PIEBALDconsult · The first bug, on September 9, 1945, was an actual bug.

That was not the first bug.

Marcel van Vugt

Undocumented features that is...

Marcel van Vugt

As i replied earlier: undocumented features

Abu Mami

nah - I prefer my bugs straight up

deutschspracher

Much older, think "fly in the ointment" older. :)

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. ~Edsger Dijkstra

HirogenCD

"It's not a Bug, it's a feature" So all Bugs are Features

BrainiacV

Any experienced programmer knows they are "features", not "bugs." I'm sure the old grizzled story about Grace Hopper and her moth will come up. To be clear, there were "Bugs" before that moth. It's just that she had a physical specimen of a metaphorical entity. Come on guys, it was a great pun! It was the press and the retelling of the story that made it into the myth (moth?) that it turned into. And like doctors who are trained never to say, "oops," but instead say, "there!" (like they meant to do it), we should train ourselves to say, "Feature." As in, "The feature just erased your hard drive." "We plan to eliminated that feature in our next release."

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Fabio Franco

How about insects? It would still fit how it all started and you have a different name! Let's insecticide this program!

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xiecsuk

And here's me thinking it was just a shortened form of "buggers", as in "little buggers".

Nikunj_Bhatt

How about calling it Woman ;) Other names could be Politician, Lawyer. "News Reporter" (which gives you news that you have got a bug!!!) Psychic Feature, Programming Violence, Unknown Déjà vu, Code Murder, Computer Idiom

ARBebopKid

My high school typing teacher actually used to work as a debugger a long time ago, she's probably about 85 now. She worked with the hardware including the vacuum tubes and often had to clear out the bugs to keep the machines going.

Robert Ludwig

The story I heard is that it originated when computers had mechanical relays to act as logic gates. A moth became trapped under one of the relays causing the program to malfunction. Hence, the program had a bug (literally).