Debuggers Aren't For Debugging

In a counterfactual past, perhaps the term “bug” was never adopted in the 1800s. And perhaps this pesky bug was never captured and never became famous. And in this alternate history, perhaps a different name would have been given to the tools we now call “debuggers”. Nearly any other name would have been preferable since de-bugging is something debuggers do not do. They’re fantastically helpful…