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Added some more information on the orgins of the term bug, and added to Category:United States Naval Officers
Admiral '''Grace Murry Hopper''' was the first person to write a computer program that actually worked. She popularized the usage of the term ''[[computer bug|bug]]'' to refer to a software error.
Admiral '''Grace Murry Hopper''' was the first person to write a computer program that actually worked. She popularized the usage of the term ''[[computer bug|bug]]'' to refer to a software error, in reference to an incident where literally an insect caused a mainframe computer system to crash.
She helped create [[COBOL]].
She helped create [[COBOL]].
[[Category:United States Naval Officers]]