Timeline for A common term for errors that are the result of other errors?
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| Sep 25, 2023 at 9:17 | comment | added | Nick Gammon | They are just trying to help. :P | |
| Sep 25, 2023 at 6:50 | comment | added | Mark | @NickGammon, these days, compilers don't output tens of thousands of errors, they output errors tens of thousands of pages long. (Seriously, just try compiling something using GCC when you use the equality operator on two things that can't be compared for equality. It produces something like twenty pages of candidate type conversions with explanations on why each one can't be used.) | |
| Sep 25, 2023 at 6:40 | comment | added | Nick Gammon | @MarkMorganLloyd Ah yes, the rude note from operators. That's something we don't get with modern compilers. (Just to clarify: Because we don't have operators putting our jobs through. I was an operator once.) Maybe with AI we could get a more human-like interface, with the AI insulting us if we make a bad enough mistake. | |
| Sep 25, 2023 at 6:35 | comment | added | Mark Morgan Lloyd | @NickGammon My cards came back wrapped in 21' of printout repeating the same one-line error message, and with a rude note from the operators. It was basically a silly mistake born of an ambiguity in the lecturer's blackboard example, which had cascaded into a flood of music-ruled printer paper :-) | |
| Sep 24, 2023 at 21:19 | comment | added | Nick Gammon | @MarkMorganLloyd When I was young (many years ago) we used a student-oriented Fortran compiler called Minitran. A job was limited to, as I recall, 10 seconds run time, or 50 pages of output. Due to a programming bug I once used all 50 pages. (I did a new page after reaching line 50, and forgot to reset the line number to 1, so each subsequent line went on a new page). | |
| Sep 24, 2023 at 11:27 | comment | added | Mark Morgan Lloyd | @NickGammon you'd be surprised. I did something similar as as FORTRAN tyro, and there's a class of programmer that prefers to blame the undergraduate rather than fix the compiler and (locally-written) job control system. | |
| Sep 24, 2023 at 7:51 | comment | added | Nick Gammon | I think compiler-writers learned their lesson, to not output tens of thousands of errors. And, I miss those old line printers. :) | |
| Sep 23, 2023 at 21:34 | comment | added | Mentalist | And now that waste of physical resources from decades ago is somewhat redeemed by the value of the story you've shared - an easily understood example of tech going into a haywire domino effect. Everything is information. Nothing is lost, only transformed. And the universe re-balances itself, even if over time scales our feeble human minds will never comprehend. Just contemplating it sends me into cascade errors. | |
| Sep 22, 2023 at 12:16 | history | edited | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 22, 2023 at 12:10 | history | answered | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 4.0 |