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Who designed the first English-language data-processing compiler and coined the word bug?
Updated: 9/11/2023
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper developed the COBOL (Common-Business Oriented Language) on the MARK I & MARK II Mainframe computers. A moth got into the electronics and caused the program to stop. The BUG was retrieved and pasted in the log book. Thus the terms: BUG (there's an error in the program) & DE-BUG( find the errors in a computer program).
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