Fabulous Adventures In Coding : ScriptingScripting languagesHuman sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria! and thread model errors!- May 7, 2007 Reader Shaka comments on my post about error messages that "catastrophic failure" really does take the cake as being a terrible error message. I fondly remember the first time I saw "catastrophic failure" as an error message. I was an intern, running the build lab for Visual Basic for Applications, and I was trying to get the PowerPC cross-compiler working so that we could build PPC binaries on x86 hardware. (Note that this was in the early 1990's. The VS build lab is now an entire team of...http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2007/05/07/human-sacrifice-dogs-and-cats-living-... |