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From: exiphm@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl (h.munk)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Strange Logitech errors.
Summary: Compilers, error checking
Message-ID: <822@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl>
Date: 8 Aug 89 07:52:25 GMT
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Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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> talk that Dijkstra gave at CMU, in which he said that if a program is not
> syntactically correct, the compiler should print just "Not syntactically
> correct" as an error message.

Well, knowing Dijkstra, what would you expect.

Anyway, he was talking about syntax, wherehere we are discussing a
problem with semantics.

Now Dijkstra might suggest printing "Not semantically correct" as an error
message. But he knows whatt it is to teach students. And he's sure one
heck of a teacher on many aspects of computer science.

Harm Munk

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