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Author: George Toft
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Subject: Re: Laws on Programming (Was: Re: [ Re: UNIX- Grad-daddy of all modern operating systems?])
Alan Dayley wrote:
> Carlos Macedo Gomes wrote:
>
>>I like these laws even better:
>>
>>George's Laws on Programming
>>
>>1. There is no such thing as a programming bug. A bug was the moth that
>>Grace Hopper pulled out of her vacuum tube computer. What programmers
>>like to call bugs are defects - defects in workmanship - defects in
>>quality.
>
>
> A rose by any other name...
>
> Why do you feel it is important that defects are not called bugs?
>


"Bug" glosses over the truth. It's like calling a condemned house a
"fixer-upper"

George

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