Comment by jaapz
Comment by jaapz 3 days ago
Kind of similar to the story about the origins of the word "bug" in software
If this would have caught on we might have called bugs mice
Comment by jaapz 3 days ago
Kind of similar to the story about the origins of the word "bug" in software
If this would have caught on we might have called bugs mice
And in colloquial speak, a grasshopper is, of course, a bug.
Isn't that story more myth than reality?
The history section of the Wikipedia entry for "bug" [1] suggests it predates computers by decades.
It's also more moth than reality.
Moths are, technically [0], not bugs.
I don't think there's a precise scientific definition of "bug"
Yes and no. There's a group called "true bugs" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiptera as linked above). "Bug" in the common sense doesn't have a precise definition (small arthropod that may or may not be a pest to humans is about as precise as I feel I can get), but there _is_ a scientific definition of "true bug".
Too many people remember the “bug” story as “Grace Hopper invented the term ‘bug’” when the real takeaway is “Grace Hopper was very funny.”