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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX Remembered
Message-ID: <12238@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 26 Sep 88 19:22:06 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Nothing wrong with minimal error messages... I took a couse in
programming languages once in which we did four or five languages in 15
weeks. I knew all of them except COBOL, so I got credit for projects on
two at once by writing a BASIC compiler in FORTRAN for the CDC3300.

If the statement was not recognized the message was "not BASIC" and if
it was not formed correctly the message was "wrong".

I had a subtle error in an editor once, which resulted in a register
dump and a message to call me. No one did, they just retried. Finally I
changed the message to read "dog germs" and people called me regularly
to ask the it meant.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me