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From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Ada] made me hate programming
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Simon Wright expounded in news:m2fx03xahe.fsf@pushface.org:

> Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:
> 
>> I had seen messages like
>> file, l.N, Syntax error
>> or
>> Syntax error at end of file
> 
> My favourite was "Syntax error at line 0" (a Telelogic compiler from long
> ago).

That narrows it down to:

a) No line was in error (no line zero).
b) The first line was in error (starting at zero).
c) Or the whole program was in error.

;-)

Warren