2007-02-06 03:40:29 · 4 answers · asked by sukriti kaul 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Nothing more, nothing less than what Monarch said...
2007-02-06 03:53:34 · answer #1 · answered by immygrant 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One of the first computers, owned by the military, refused to
print some important data one day. After its programmers
tried for many hours to find the problem in the program, a
programmer by the name of Grace Hopper decided to check
the printer. She found a small moth lodged between two
important wires. When she removed the moth, the printer
started working perfectly.
Grace Hopper was an admiral from the Navy and, although
she was responsible for developing many important computer
concepts (she was the author of the original COBOL language),
she might be best known for discovering the first computer
bug. Ever since Admiral Hopper discovered that moth, errors in
computer programs have been known as computer bugs. When
you test your programs, you might have to debug them—get the
bugs (errors) out by correcting your typing errors or changing
the logic so your program does exactly what you want it to do.
2007-02-06 12:14:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In fact errors in any programming language are termed as bugs. This is because, there was a problem in a computer in initial days of its usage, when tracked down it was a bug(real bug) in the box which got some circuits shorted. The term came into usage from then on.....
2007-02-06 11:46:23 · answer #3 · answered by Monarch 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
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Not only in C, in all languages errors are called bugs.
But normally the word bug will be used only in corparate companies where they would be developing large softwares.
Whe we write small programs in any language, we call just as error.
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2007-02-07 02:20:38 · answer #4 · answered by V@su Maniram 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋