didn’t adm hopper coin the term “bug”?
She did but I think she was also instrumental in the development of COBOL. For anyone under 40 that was a programming language. :)
No. But she did tell everyone far and wide where the term originated, because it was Navy.
Basically an early Navy electronic computer suffered an outage. When the Navy technician investigated he found a bug smashed in a relay. Being a typically resourceful sailor, he carefully peeled the bug off the relay face and taped it into the log book noting cause of failure; "bug in system". That log entry rapidly became an inside joke.
Admiral Hopper was one of those with original knowledge of the joke. And she delighted in explaining the term's origin so it would never be lost.