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+ | Also it helps not to be too cute even with impossible error messages. A colleague left a message along the lines of <q>Application rubbish bin has broken.</q> once. Cue a somewhat perplexed user call several years later… | ||
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+ | “Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. | ||
+ | But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.” | ||
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+ | ― Terry Pratchett, Mort | ||
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+ | --[[User:Kventin|Kventin]] ([[User talk:Kventin|talk]]) 07:51, 11 September 2019 (UTC) |
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When I tried to go here originally, it was unreachable. 162.158.107.61 03:54, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
nothing about the comic suggests a website. it looks more like the error message of a program. also, i don't think CB is typing it, just reading. 172.68.50.124 06:20, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
"Can't happen"
This comic is not about "a problem that the programmers did not anticipate", but rather a situation that the programmer rules out as impossible, which is technically called "Can't happen" or "Impossible Error" in the hacker/programmer's jargon. See http://catb.org/jargon/html/C/can-t-happen.html
For example:
for ($i=1;$i<=5;++$i) {echo $i." - ";} if ($i<10) {echo "Bye!";} else {echo "Can't happen!";}
ElfQrin (talk) 07:14, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
Also it helps not to be too cute even with impossible error messages. A colleague left a message along the lines of Application rubbish bin has broken.
once. Cue a somewhat perplexed user call several years later…
“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort