Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!ctrsol!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Bugs Message-ID: <8910090044.aa17084@ADM.BRL.MIL> Date: 9 Oct 89 05:31:10 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: School of Business - U. of Connecticut Lines: 46 On Thu, 5 Oct 89 01:25:01 GMT you said: >In article > davidbrierley@lynx.northeastern.edu writes: >> the MARK II was up again. Grace Hooer (she is one of the most >> important forces in the development of high-level languages) Specifically, Grace Hopper is the creator of COBOL (I've long since forgiven her for that :-) >> remarked, "First successful debugging," and the moth was taped to >> the log book. It remains there today. I've heard Admiral Grace tell that story several times. What SHE say is: "Someone asked me if we found the problem and I said we had. They asked what was wrong with it, and I said 'it had a bug in it.'" That "bug" by the way is on display in the Computer Museum in Boston. > This isn't a very important addition, but you mentioned you made >typos...But the lady's name is Grace Hopper... I believe she's a Rear >Admiral or something like that. I don't know if she's still alive... (She's >pretty old) Still very much alive, and only recently retired. The Navy tried to retire her years ago, and then found out they needed her worse than she needed them so they 'unretired' (and subsequently promoted) her (that's the only instance I've ever heard of like it -- there have been several others that the Navy brass tried and failed to retire - Adm Rickover is a recent famous example - but Adm Hopper is the only person I know of that's been brought back from retirement). >made the pretty well known statement that "one nanosecond equals 11 inches".. I've seen her SHOW an audience a 'nanosecond' (a piece of wire the length light would travel in a nanosecond), but I hadn't heard her translate its length into linear measure (the visual is MUCH more effective). Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90] Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] (203) 486-5246 [FAX] (203) 486-2489 [PHONE] 41 49N 72 15W [ICBM] The opposite of artificial intelligence is genuine stupidity! -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)