Suicide Linux (2009)

Re:Suicide Linux (2009) by vulcan01 on Thursday October 01, 2020 @01:34PM (#24653809)

Or perhaps the famous ? from ed :)

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Re:Suicide Linux (2009) by segfaultbuserr on Thursday October 01, 2020 @01:46PM (#24653961)

I like the error messages in some early BASIC interpreters. They must be as short as possible, since the entire interpreter fits in 4 KiB of RAM. For example, in Li-Chen Wang's Palo Alto Tiny BASIC...

The only message for all syntax errors, is:

    WHAT?

The only message for all runtime errors, is:

    HOW?

And the only message for legal but unsupported operations (e.g. out of memory) is:

    SORRY

See the source code here: https://github.com/ancientcomputing/8080_8085/blob/master/Ti...

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Re:Suicide Linux (2009) by linker3000 on Friday October 02, 2020 @02:18AM (#24659508)

From the Z80ASM users manual (1984):

Syntax Error

This message appears when the assembler is too confused to know what went wrong.

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