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Unfortunately, it has become common for programs to give messages such
as "an unexpected error has occurred. Sorry."
[BTW, WTF is an *expected* error anyway??]
When I was at college, this would _never_ do. Programs are expected to
"fail gracefully" - and they are expected to provide *meaningful* error
condition descriptions. Any program that didn't would be harshly
down-marked. The people at that college may not have known anything
about Pascal, but they knew about program design! o_O
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