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Sometimes I gaze into the stars and wonder how many programming careers were ruined by nebulous "stack overflow", "null pointer exception" and "segmentation fault: core dumped" messages.


Talking about StackOverflow, shouldn’t all messages have a permalink to their StackOverflow unique identifier where people will discuss them ;)


A really evil programming language would give you an error code and a link to create a question on Stack Overflow asking what the hell it means.


Visual Studio already does almost this, if you hover over a Intellisense or Build error it will give you a link to search for it on Bing. Which is extremely helpful when the error is "Linker error".

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/find-and-f...


And the all time favourite: "This programm has violated system integrity and must be terminated"


Bus error. (i miss those pizza boxes)




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