7 Dec
2018
7 Dec
'18
8:06 p.m.
On 7 Dec 2018 03:31 -0500, from g.branden.robinson(a)gmail.com (G. Branden Robinson):
Back in the old days (1993!) a freshman programmer on
SunOS 4 would be
subjected to a truly incomprehensible chain of compiler errors that
arose from a single lexical mistake like a missing semicolon.
That's around the time when I first started dabbling in C. One of the
first things I figured out was that it was a great help to ignore all
errors but the first one if I got a slew of errors during compilation;
figure out how to fix that first one, recompile, and see if the other
errors went away. Usually, they did. Thankfully, the programs I was
working on at the time were small, so compilation time wasn't an
issue.
I think that advice was even in one of the books I was (trying to)
follow.
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Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael(a)kjorling.se
“The most dangerous thought that you can have as a creative person
is to think you know what you’re doing.” (Bret Victor)