Article: 40229 of alt.folklore.computers Sender: cstacy@BONK Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Amusing Error Messages (Was: Weird Programming Language) References: <3E480576.B761E0A0@alum.mit.edu> <100220032315439869%newsreply1@erstesoft.com> <3E49AC82.83D85B03@gazonk.del> <3E594073.1040507@comcast.net> <3E5ABDAB.E9C350C9@ev1.net> From: cstacy@dtpq.com (Christopher C. Stacy) Message-ID: Lines: 34 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 03:53:21 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.160.161.205 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrddc02.gnilink.net 1046145201 68.160.161.205 (Mon, 24 Feb 2003 22:53:21 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 22:53:21 EST Path: news.meer.net!sea-read.news.verio.net!dfw-artgen!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!chi1.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller.gnilink.net!nwrddc02.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Xref: archive.mv.meer.net alt.folklore.computers:40229 >>>>> On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 22:51:24 GMT, Charles Richmond ("Charles") writes: Charles> John Ahlstrom wrote: >> >> Can anyone confirm or finally refute the story >> that an early C compiler had but 1 error message: >> "Not a program" >> Charles> APL\360 had only three error messages: "SYNTAX ERROR", Charles> "RANGE ERROR", and "RANK ERROR" IIRC. My APL experience was mostly on APL*PLUS at STSC, but I am pretty sure that APL\360 also had these error messages in addition to the three you mention: DOMAIN ERROR LENGTH ERROR CHARACTER ERROR (improper overstrikes) DEPTH ERROR (recursion stack blowout) DEFN ERROR (redefinition) INDEX ERROR VALUE ERROR SYMBOL TABLE FULL SI DAMAGE and finally SYSTEM ERROR I think "SYSTEM ERROR" might be the same as TSB's "PROGRAM BAD". It automatically put you in a clear ws. The other error message that you could get was WS FULL. I hated that one.