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Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:19 am |
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| The idea, I guess, was that the TRS-80 wasn't for real programmers, so it didn't need any information in its error messages. |
Haha, that sounds exactly like some of the extremely vague error messages on Apple's System 7.x!
Though, the original quote doesn't really make too much sense. A programmer writes software that handles errors based on function return codes. A function commonly either returns different values depending on what error occurred, or uses only one return code to indicate an error after setting a global variable to indicate the particular error (i.e. errno). The error message shown to the user is usually more general or generic and is written to be comprehendible to a non-programmer. (at least on some OSes, such as the aforementioned System 7.x) |
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