[Ingtar]

I love the compiler errors nowadays. “You need a semicolon here.” “You did not spell this correctly.” I wonder sometimes why it does not just fix it when it is that obvious. However, I then remember just how dumb compilers and computers actually are, and cringe at the possible damage.

I guess we should stop allowing fish imports from China.

[tinyowl]

My favorite early in my programming career error was "Abstract Error" in Borland Delphi ... it was a runtime message box that came up if it was a windows desktop app ... so not compile time. When I first ever in my life saw it I didn't know it was directing me to an unimplemented method form an abstract base class, so I just thought it was being very philosophical with me, which I guess in a way it was.

It has often struck me that the reason nobody can understand God is that God is a private buried in a base class of 'man.' It's effects are everywhere, obvious, undeniable, but if you try to access it explicitly, and you think all that exists is only what you can see, not gonna happen.

With practice though being a man, unlike software, (or maybe you can cast yourself as the baseclass) ... you can in fact kind of access it almost directly, or you use some of your protected and public methods that more directly affect it immediately, but not directly. God seems private and final in an ancestor class.

Alas I digress! Not all life is software.