Re: Favorite error messages

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3 total messages Started by sum... Mark Summerfield Mon, 01 Oct 1990 03:00

#4604

Author: sum... Mark Summerfield
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 1990 03:00

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t...@its.bt.co.uk (Tim Oldham) writes:

>The BBC B micro's BASIC had a (very good) renumber command. If you got the
>parameters wrong in some way (which I forget; I suppose it was something
>like renumber 500,0 instead of 0,500 ie renumber the lines 0 to 500), you
>got the error message
>	Silly

Yes, *very*!! We got a lot of fun out of this at school, as I recall!

The only real problem is -- it wasn't the *user* who was being silly, it
was the author(s) of the Basic interpreter being lazy. the RENUMBER
command took up to two arguments -- a starting line number, and a step
size (with defaults of 10). The "Silly" error message meant either that
your step size was zero (reasonable), or that it was greater than 255
(clearly lazy programming!). Of course, with a limit on the highest
allowable line number of 32767, the restriction was probably not a
severe problem!

Mark.
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Re: Favorite error messages

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Author: bir... Jon Wasgermane
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 1990 03:05

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My favorite error message went something like this

Insane link structure:



I got this on a uVAX......i knew my programing was bad...but...
well, I still think im safe enough to be out on the streets...




					-jay-
				"I hit the buttons and it started
                                   to giggle and giggle"

Re: Favorite error messages

#4605

Author: Mathew Murphy
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 1990 03:10

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I found a good error message today.

Microsoft Word for Windows, error number 127:
"Wrong number of dimensions."

Hey, I'm really sorry Microsoft, but it's a feature of reality...

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