Origin of the word bug is that long time ago, an actual bug (as in animal) caused an error. Since then errors are called bugs, because everybody loved the story.
I have no idea whether story is true. But, at Dijkstra time, he probably associated "bug" with above story - the error was not human mistake, humans were innocent, it was just bad luck that rarely happens. We are now 40 years later and associations are completely different.
I have no idea whether story is true. But, at Dijkstra time, he probably associated "bug" with above story - the error was not human mistake, humans were innocent, it was just bad luck that rarely happens. We are now 40 years later and associations are completely different.