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Deryk Barker

In what way

"In their footsteps came Grace Hopper."

OK, Grace Hopper was already working on Howard Aiken's Harvard Mark I machine in 1944 when a moth flew into a relay and brought the system down. It is her logbook entry which actually had the moth taped to the page and the legend "first actual case of a bug being found". (Note, this is NOT the origin of the term "bug" nor did Hopper ever claim that.)

Given that the ENIAC didn't work until after the end of the war, in what sense did Hopper come "in their footsteps"?

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