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Originally Posted by Chris
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Indeed ... as it is also common practice to call the process of solving computing problems 'debugging' ... even though it has been many years since computers had the sort of enormous valves that used to get clogged up with insects to the point where they would overheat and go pop, requiring both a new valve and a sweep with a brush to remove the bugs from the works.
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Whilst the origin of the term
'debugging' is contested, it almost certainly pre-dates thermionic valves and has far wider historical usage that just in the computer hardware or software industries.
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