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Waste Not, Get Bored

20 March 2000 - 4:00am — Christopher Wright
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Phil's explanation, by the way, is based completely in reality. One programmer I worked with used to use couplets from Shakespearean sonnets as his error messages for exactly the same reason.

Comic Transcript

ALEX: The dreaded Grey Screen of Death is your grocery list?

PHIL: Sure. This kind of stuff happens all the time.

PHIL: See, programmers working on a project don't NEED to have detailed technical data flashed at theme very time there's a crash. We already know what the bugs mean, we just need to know when they occur. So we get bored and deviate from the standard error messages.

ALEX: Yes, but why don't you just display them in English?

PHIL: Where's the challenge in that?

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