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Discover LudwigThe word "debug" is correct and usable in written English, and it can be used as a verb or a noun
Example sentence: The software engineer spent hours debugging the computer code.
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debug
verb
To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery.
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There were other rare variations on the PlayStation including a blue "debug" machine available only to game developers and a white version released in 1997 for the Asian market, which allowed users to play the VideoCD movie format.
But this trick is currently possible only for simple circuits.With molecular circuits becoming steadily more complex, new software tools are being developed to design, model and debug them.
"Write once, debug everywhere" is how cynics describe it.
Small programs, called applets, written in Java were meant to be distributed via the Internet and downloaded to run on any computer, regardless of its operating system.Yet the "write once, run anywhere" claim for Java was quickly amended by cynical developers to "write once, debug everywhere".
It is a nightmare, for example, to debug the next version of Windows NT, which is said to have more than 35m lines of code.
Later that year she was one of the six women chosen by the University of Pennsylvania to program and debug ENIAC.
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Debugging code on a parallel machine with hundreds or thousands of cores creates unique problems, and may be the biggest single challenge facing parallel programming, says Charles Holland of the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research-funding agency of America's Department of Defence.
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