Why we call them bugs???

[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]

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."

Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.

[Fabio Franco]

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

"To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems" - Homer Simpson

[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).

[Stefan_Lang]

Right. Let's name them Hug! Hey, everybody wants one! ;) (P.S.: also it sounds much nicer if I tell you you're hugging me :D )

[edmurphy99]

Google is your friend

[msvbdev]

the last suggestion applies perfectly to our current state of government :)

" 'To Err Is Human'... If that's true, than users are the most human people I've ever met" -Anonymous ASP Developer

[starmerak]

Good suggestion, let's forever after call them "imps". "Why did the program crash?" "It is an Imp."