Re: Worst error messages of all time.

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From: d... Dmitry V. Volodin
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 1990 09:37

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In article <22...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> pet...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch) writes:
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>Another favorite, "Can't grok <string>" I believe this was
>"lex"? Maybe "yacc"? ("LEX" is the Lexical analyser generator
>program. "YACC" is "Yet Another Compiler Compiler").
>Anyways, "grok" hasd found its way into the UNIX lexicon
>as a general "I don't understand" lament.

This message was (is?) generated by BSD mt command.


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Subject: Re: Worst error messages of all time.
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