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error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler. These are all real. (If you must know I was bored one afternoon and error message text decompiled the String resources for the compiler.) The compiler is funny error message 324k in size so these are just an excerpt I hope. I'm not sure where I stand
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on the copyright issue. Tony Cunningham "String literal too long (I let you have 512 characters, that's 3 more than ANSI said I should)" "...And the
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lord said, 'lo, there shall only be case or default labels inside a switch statement'" "a typedef name was a complete surprise to me at this point in your program" "'Volatile' and 'Register' are not miscible" "You can't modify a constant, float upstream, win an argument with the IRS, or satisfy this compiler" "This error message examples struct already has a perfectly good definition" "type in (cast) must be scalar; ANSI 3.3.4; page 39, lines 10-11 (I know you don't care, I'm just trying to annoy you)" "Can't cast a void type to type void (because the ANSI spec. says so, that's why)" "Huh ?" "can't go mucking with a 'void *'" "we already did this function" "This label is the target of a goto from outside of the block containing this label AND this block has an automatic variable with an initializer AND your window wasn't wide enough to read this whole error message" "Call me paranoid but finding '/*' inside this comment makes me suspicious" "Too many errors on one line (make fewer)" "Symbol table full - fatal heap error; please go buy a RAM upgrade from your local Apple dealer" | Browse the Best of RHF: "Computer, Science and Math Jokes" | Best of Jokes | Current Jokes | RHF Home | Search
Development List Question Computer Programming Survey QuestionWhat are some funny compilation error messages thrown by compilers that you have come across?UpdateCancelAnswer Wiki6 Answers Tikhon Jelvis, studied
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programming languages and did research on program synthesisWritten 180w agoIf you abuse funny error text messages certain advanced features, GHC's brain explodes:Foo.hs:3:22: My brain just exploded. I can't handle pattern bindings for existentially-quantified constructors. error message 404 Instead, use a case-expression, or do-notation, to unpack the constructor. (Example taken from Hidden features of Haskell on StackOverflow.)2.2k Views · View UpvotesRelated QuestionsMore Answers BelowWhat are some of the http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/91q3/cerrors.html funniest and weird eclipse error messages you have come across?What are some of the funniest Windows error messages you have ever seen?What does the error message "child killed kill signal" given by the GCC compiler mean?How does compile speed vary across compiled programming languages?How is a compiler program compiled? Akash Sharma, has a stepladder; real ladder ran away.Written 132w agoINTERCAL https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-funny-compilation-error-messages-thrown-by-compilers-that-you-have-come-across is by far the funniest and one of the most interesting languages I have used.Just have a glance at the below code :It is a perfectly sensible code for INTERCAL compiler! This language uses keywords likePLEASE (Politeness is important for programmers!)READ OUT (like printf)WRITE IN (like scanf)RETRIEVE (retrieves stored variable)Now sit back and enjoy some hilarious errors this compiler throws!Error : PROGRAMMER IS INSUFFICIENTLY POLITE.Reason : Each line is a separate command and I tried to be way too much dominating without using a single PLEASE!Error : PROGRAMMER IS OVERLY POLITE.Reason : A single command with way too much politeness. Too much troll!A single PLEASE would have sufficed by the way.Error : DON'T BYTE OFF MORE THAN YOU CAN CHEWReason : I tried to store a 32 bit integer in a 16 bit variable. In case had I tried to store a 64 bit integer in a 32 bit variable, the error would have been YOU WANT MAYBE WE SHOULD IMPLEMENT 64-BIT VARIABLES? Error : THROW STICK BEFORE RETRIEVING! Reason : I tried to retrieve a variable witho
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Messages of All Time They're rarely helpful. Actually, they usually add insult to injury. But what would computing be without 'em? Herewith, a tribute to a baker's dozen of the best (or is that worst?). By Harry McCracken | Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 5:28 am "To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer." So goes an old quip attributed to Paul Ehrlich. He was right. One of the defining things about computers is that they-or, more specifically, the people who program them-get so many things so very wrong. Hence the need for error messages, which have been around nearly as long as computers themselves.. In theory, error messages should be painful at worst and boring at best. They tend to be cryptic; they rarely offer an apology even when one is due; they like to provide useless information like hexadecimal numbers and to withhold facts that would be useful, like plain-English explanations of how to right want went wrong. In multiple ways, most of them represent technology at its most irritating. In fact, people have an emotional attachment to many of them-like Proust's Madeleine, an error message from a machine out of your past can transport you back in time. That's a big part of why people form clubs to celebrate them, have them tattooed on their person, chronicle them for Wikipedia, and name albums after them. An entire company, the wonderfully-named Errorwear, exists to emblazon the images of such classic errors as the Blue Screen of Death (in four variations!), Guru Meditation, Red Ring of Death, and Sad Mac on T-shirts. And then there's this article-my stab at rounding up the major error messages of the past thirty years or so. I ranked them on a variety of factors, including how many people they bedeviled over the years, their aesthetic appeal or lack thereof, and the likelihood that they were notifying you of a genuine computing disaster. Your rankings probably differ from mine, which is why this story ends with a poll on the last page. Ready? Let's work through the list, starting with number thirteen and working our way up to the greatest error message of 'em all. 13. Abort, Retry, Fail? (MS-DOS) In many ways, it remains an error message to judge other error messages by. It's terse. (Three words.) It's confusing. (What's the difference between Abort and Fail?) It could indicate either a minor glitch (you forgot to put a floppy disk in the drive) or