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Article #4913Re: Creative Computing's error contest (was: Worst error messages...)
From: thor... David H. Thornley
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 03:37
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 03:37
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In article <58...@rtech.Ingres.COM> reb@squid.UUCP (Phydeaux) writes:
>I recall that many moons ago Creative Computing had a contest for the smallest
>program that would generate the most error messages. The winner was a 1 line
>program on some IBM machine which produced error messages forever. Anyone
>remember anything more on this? It must have been in 1977 or 1978...
> reb
This was some time ago, and I threw my CCs out *long* ago, so please forgive
any memory system corruption in the wetware :-).
The winner was a COBOL program; I believe it was
PROGRAM-NAME. ERROR-MSG.
or at least something similar. This caused every compiler error message
to be printed out, and CC closed down the contest. Personally, I thought
this to be a compiler device, and not a legitimate entry, but that's the
way they called it.
DISCLAIMER: I have been fortunate enough *never* to program in COBOL
on any IBM computer.
DHT
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!bu.edu!shelby!msi-s0.msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!thornley From: thor...@cs.umn.edu (David H. Thornley) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Creative Computing's error contest (was: Worst error messages...) Keywords: errors Message-ID: <1990Oct2.033744.13511@cs.umn.edu> Date: 2 Oct 90 03:37:44 GMT References: <511@88opensi.UUCP> <5843@rtech.Ingres.COM> Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis - CSCI Dept. Lines: 23 Posted: Tue Oct 2 04:37:44 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit