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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:06:56 -0600
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From: Michael Ravnitzky <MikeRav@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Bugs and Computation
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I just signed up on this list and I'm reading my way through the archives. Please forgive me if someone has mentioned this already.
1) Computation, etc.
Shakespeare is reputed to be the first person to coin and use the word "computation", which appears in Comedy of Errors, ii. 2, 4.
Sir Thomas Browne, an English writer, probably first used the terms "compute" in Vulgar Errors, b. vi., c. 4 Section 4, along with "computists" and "computable" in the same work. Milton used compute in P.L. iii., 580.
Compute is derived from the latin com- for together and putare, to think, settle, adjust.
2) Bugs
I don't buy the Navy broad's single moth episode explanation for "bugs". I'd like to see some slang from the old telephone and telegraph people to help track down where that derived. Moreover, the Oxford Oetymological Dictionary of the English language implies that the word "bug" or "bugge" was used to imply a goblin or spirit or spectre or apparition or bugbear meaning a scarecrow. It also relates to the sanskrit word for "to turn aside, to bend, to bow".
In other words, a problem no matter how you look at it.
Michael Ravnitzky
MikeRav@ix.netcom.com
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From: Michael Ravnitzky <MikeRav@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Bugs and Computation
______________________________________________________________________
Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
I just signed up on this list and I'm reading my way through the archives. Please forgive me if someone has mentioned this already.
1) Computation, etc.
Shakespeare is reputed to be the first person to coin and use the word "computation", which appears in Comedy of Errors, ii. 2, 4.
Sir Thomas Browne, an English writer, probably first used the terms "compute" in Vulgar Errors, b. vi., c. 4 Section 4, along with "computists" and "computable" in the same work. Milton used compute in P.L. iii., 580.
Compute is derived from the latin com- for together and putare, to think, settle, adjust.
2) Bugs
I don't buy the Navy broad's single moth episode explanation for "bugs". I'd like to see some slang from the old telephone and telegraph people to help track down where that derived. Moreover, the Oxford Oetymological Dictionary of the English language implies that the word "bug" or "bugge" was used to imply a goblin or spirit or spectre or apparition or bugbear meaning a scarecrow. It also relates to the sanskrit word for "to turn aside, to bend, to bow".
In other words, a problem no matter how you look at it.
Michael Ravnitzky
MikeRav@ix.netcom.com
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