Where did the name Bison come from anyway? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by JohnSmith@feddit.uk to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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The history of computers and software is full of nerdy and obscure jokes well beyond the caricatures of exiting vim. Complier compiler (explain that to most people!) to yet another compiler compiler to bison is one of those.

What are your favourite obscure computer nerd jokes?

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[-] makr_alland@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

A real-life moth was found to be the cause of errors in a computer, popularizing the terms "bug" and "debugging". The culprit was attached to the report as proof:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugging#/media/File%3AFirst_Computer_Bug%2C_1945.jpg