September 22nd, 2009 | 
Author: Whenever a runtime error occurs Why is it called a Bug & not something else ?
One day, a computer scientist named Grace Hopper had a malfunction in a computer. She solved the problem by finding a bug inside the computer and removing it. Hence, the problem was caused by a bug and runtime errors became known as bugs.
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Usage of the term "bug" to describe inexplicable defects has been a part of engineering jargon for many decades and predates computers and computer software; it may have originally been used in hardware engineering to describe mechanical malfunctions. For instance, Thomas Edison wrote the following words in a letter to an associate in 1878:
“ It has been just so in all of my inventions. The first step is an intuition, and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise—this thing gives out and [it is] then that "Bugs"—as such little faults and difficulties are called—show themselves and months of intense watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success or failure is certainly reached.[2]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_bug
Software bug – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
because bugs are disgusting and all.. and they tend to ruin things which is what happens when u have a bug that is what it does to the computer and that is why it is an error..
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All the info you need should be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_bug
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_bug
Compare to a house bugs, if you have it in your bed,it is so irritating, it might bite u, and may give you a disease that will affect your health.
In software, programmers, developers, cannot avoid some errors, and small, mistakes in the programs, that create, some annoying things, sometimes program hangs, these small errors they called it bugs, it can be fixed, that is why users are prompted to send the errors, that is the reason why all programs, drivers are keep upgrading, in order to eliminate the bugs from the previous versions…
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One day, a computer scientist named Grace Hopper had a malfunction in a computer. She solved the problem by finding a bug inside the computer and removing it. Hence, the problem was caused by a bug and runtime errors became known as bugs.
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It wasn’t actually a bug that the scientist found inside the computer but a small rodent. He just referred to it as a "bug" when he was asked what the problem was. Hence, the term "bug" was used to describe problems regarding computer softwares.
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It was indeed a bug, more correctly an insect, even more a moth.
http://www.waterholes.com/~dennette/1996/hopper/bug.htm
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