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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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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...
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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

In article <58...@rtech.Ingres.COM>, r...@squid.rtech.com (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...

There was a 2-byte program (you could enter it from the debugger... so
I was told...) which would *crash* the IBM 370/165 at the University
of Cambridge when it was running MVS (or was it MVT?  I forget).


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