Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!eutrc3!exiphm 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 References:<8940@june.cs.washington.edu> Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 16 > 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 Standard disclaimer: none (what the heck, I resigned anyway)