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English
Etymology
Coined by American computer programmer Sandra Lee Harris in 1971 at Digital Equipment Corporation.
Phrase
it's not a bug, it's a feature
- (computing) What one user may consider a software bug, other users may consider to be a useful feature or an intentional consequence of the system's design.
- (humorous) A self-deprecating response when confronted by a bug in the software that one is authored or is introducing to another user.
- (by extension) Affirms the validity of a counterintuitive behavior within a system; it is by design.
1999 September, “Long-term Test Cars”, in Popular Mechanics, New York City:One annoyance, or maybe it’s one of those “it’s-not-a-bug-it’s-a-feature” situations, is the gearshift.
2025 May 15, Bart Jansen, quoting D. John Sauer, “Brown Jackson questioned how courts help multiple victims with only one litigant”, in USA Today, New York City, retrieved 2025-05-15:“It is a feature, not a bug of Article 3 that the courts grant relief for the people in front of them,” Sauer said.
Translations
in computing
- Japanese: それは仕様です (sore wa shiyō desu)
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