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Re: Worst error messages of all time..

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From: meis... Michael Meissner
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 1990 17:38
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In article <511@88opensi.UUCP> dave@88opensi.UUCP (Dave Cline) writes:

| The Algol compiler used at Case Institute of Technology, after finding
| 25 errors in the source (e.g., like you spelled BEGIN as BEGNI), would 
| print
| 
| 	"At this point, we suggest you try re-reading the manual."
| 
| It actually had several 'choice' errors messages, but this was the
| most obnoxious.

I've also heard tell of a Fortran compiler that would print out:

	"Programming by Monte Carlo methods is frowned upon."

if you had too many errors.
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Michael Meissner	email: meis...@osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142

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