Laws on Programming (Was: Re: [ Re: UNIX- Grad-daddy of all modern operating systems?])

[George Toft]

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