Kevin Wampler wrote:
> evidence for the need for better error messages 

I was actually pretty impressed by the C# IDE from MS. I wrote

void do_it(int a, int b, int c = 0) { ... }

and the error message wasn't ") or , expected" or "syntax error", but rather 
a pointer to the = and the message "C# does not support default arguments."

I was also impressed when I started up my program under test in full screen 
and the IDE bumped its debugger windows over to the second screen and put 
them back when the program exited. Cool attention to detail.  Not that this 
has anything to do with the current thread.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   The question in today's corporate environment is not
   so much "what color is your parachute?" as it is
   "what color is your nose?"

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