Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!cwjcc!alpha!rich From: rich@alpha.CES.CWRU.Edu (Seth Rich) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: UNIX Remembered Message-ID: <90@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu> Date: 27 Sep 88 15:20:03 GMT References: <1020003@hpisoa2.HP.COM> <3803@omepd> <888@stcns3.stc.oz> <12238@steinmetz.ge.com> Sender: news@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu Reply-To: rich@jvncf.csc.org (Seth I. Rich) Organization: CWRU Dept of Mathematics and Philosophy, Cleveland, OH Lines: 24 In article <12238@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: >Nothing wrong with minimal error messages... : >If the statement was not recognized the message was "not BASIC" and if >it was not formed correctly the message was "wrong". >-- > bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) > {uunet | philabs}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen >"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me Brings to mind the computer I learned on... a TRS-80 Model I (in BASIC), which had (at the time) a grand total of three error messages: what? for syntax errors how? for non-executables (GOTO wrong line, etc.) sorry. for out-of-memory (exceeding 4K was not a difficult task, so they went to 16K -- it seemed infinite at the time [for about 3 months]) Seth I. Rich ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Seth I. Rich Math/Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University Rabbits on walls, no problem.