Accuracy Is Everything
You now are well aware that the computer is a machine that does not deal well with ambiguity. A programmer's plague is the errors that show up in code. Programmers must ensure that they do not write programs that contain errors, and this is not always easy.
A program error is known as a bug. When breaking the programming problem into detailed instructions, programmers often leave things out or code the wrong thing. When the program runs, errors creep up due to the bugs in the code.
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The term bug has an interesting origin. The late naval Admiral Grace Hopper, one of the early pioneers of computer hardware and software (she helped write the first COBOL compiler), was working on a military computer system in the early ...
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