"Bug" Term

"Bug" Term

A computer error is called a "bug." because one of the first computer errors caused by a real bug.

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The term "bug" was used in an account by computer pioneer Grace Hopper, who publicized the cause of a malfunction in an early electromechanical computer. A typical version of the story is:
In 1946, when Hopper was released from active duty, she joined the Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory where she continued her work on the Mark II and Mark III. Operators traced an error in the Mark II to a moth trapped in a relay, coining the term bug. This bug was carefully removed and taped to the logbook. Stemming from the first bug, today we call errors or glitches in a program a bug.

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