Because frogging sounds like you’re out to catch frogs.
Debugging, when it was coined, was a unique word with no predefined meaning. So it couldn’t be confused with anything else.
The prefix “de” is commonly understood to be the act of removing something (I’m not a languager, you know what I mean). And “bug” was the term for an issue in hardware/software.
So DE-BUG-ING is a nice unique word for the act of removing hardware/software bugs!
Because frogging sounds like you’re out to catch frogs.
Debugging, when it was coined, was a unique word with no predefined meaning. So it couldn’t be confused with anything else.
The prefix “de” is commonly understood to be the act of removing something (I’m not a languager, you know what I mean). And “bug” was the term for an issue in hardware/software.
So DE-BUG-ING is a nice unique word for the act of removing hardware/software bugs!
No, it was literally searching for bugs in relays or punch card readers.
Which would be a hardware bug.
Ya, I said that. Hardware.