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Article #4658Re: Worst error messages of all time.
From: mya... m.yamin
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 1990 14:57
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 1990 14:57
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The ancient Bell Labs BESYS-7 Fortran II compiler (ca. 1966), for the even more ancient IBM 7094, would, if sufficiently provoked, tell you: PLEASE RUN THIS PROGRAM ON SOME OTHER MACHINE This was a batch system with 2-hour turnaround, so Fortran "syntax error" diagnostics could get pretty oppressive. At least this one was amusing. M. Yamin m...@syscad.att.com
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