Fun error messages (was Re: styled text to record, ...)
Fun error messages (was Re: styled text to record, ...)
- Subject: Fun error messages (was Re: styled text to record, ...)
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 15:06:29 -0800
At 09:33p +0000 01/24/2004, Phil Dobbin didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
On 24/01/2004, at 21:15 (GMT), John W. Baxter, email@hidden wrote:
>Almost as much fun as some of the error messages in the second in the
>sequence of many C compilers for the MPW programming environment.
>
>One of my favorites:
>"A typedef was a complete surprise to me at this point in your program."
>
>(If you don't know C, all you really need to know here is that it has a
>strange beast called a typedef.)
My favourite was always:
"String literal too long (I let you have 512 characters, that's 3
more than ANSI said I should)"
My favorite from System 6 when I tried to switch-launch:
"Only one OS at a time."
(Won't see that in the current system!)
-boo
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