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From: paul@frcs.UUCP (Paul Nash)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.unix.internals,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Jargon file v2.1.5 28 NOV 1990 -- part 1 of 6
Message-ID: <207@frcs.UUCP>
Date: 3 Dec 90 07:47:30 GMT
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Thus spake eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond):

> BUG [from telephone terminology, ``bugs in a telephone cable'', blamed
>    for noisy lines] n. An unwanted and unintended property of a
>    program, esp. one which causes it to malfunction. See FEATURE.

I have heard this attributed to Rear Admiral (retd) Grace Hopper, who 
had a malfunctioning program.  The cause was traced to a fried moth in
the back of the computer.


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