[GNC] GnuCash 5.3 autofill headaches

[Adrien Monteleone]

On 6/30/23 7:08 AM, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:
> PS --- don't you love the term "bug". Where I used to work, they had the 
> late Grace Murray Hopper in to give us a talk every few years. One of 
> her anecdotes of the early days was how the term came about. One time a 
> "down" was caused by an insect getting into the machine and causing a 
> short. Could just picture the glee of those people as youngsters as they 
> attached the specimen* and pages and pages about its life cycle, etc. to 
> the hated "problem report" they were required to submit for every "down" 
> as a sort of protest. So naturally, the next time they came over with a 
> report on a down the response was "OK, what kind of a bug was it this 
> time".
> 
> * They had sent over to the Smithsonian for an ID and as much 
> information about it as possible, so they had a LOT of pages to append.

That's hilarious!

Regards,
Adrien