Re: Favorite error messages

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From: hu... Greg Hunt
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 1990 14:24

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One of my favorite messages from a computer system was generated
by a compiler (I believe it was Fortran) on a Honeywell CP-6 computer.

If you created a label called JAIL and somewhere you had a statement
GOTO JAIL, the compiler would generate a warning message like this:

    Warning:  Go directly to jail, do not collect $200.

Or something like that.  I laughed out loud after a friend told me
about that and I tried it.  The program worked just fine, you just
got a warning message when you compiled it.

I don't know if the message is still generated by the current compiler,
this was from 8 years ago (good grief).

P.S.  The quote is from the "Goto Jail" card in the game of Monopoly,
if you didn't recognize it.

--
Greg Hunt                        Internet: hu...@dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com
DG/UX Kernel Development         UUCP:     {world}!mcnc!rti!dg-rtp!hunt
Data General Corporation
Research Triangle Park, NC       These opinions are mine, not DG's.

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Subject: Re: Favorite error messages
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