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[–] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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!

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