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A scanner darkly
Kids these days do not know they are born, because they do not spend nearly enough time looking directly at source code.
Unlike Jamie Gordon at Data Encryption Systems, who was scanning someone else’s source code the other day when he saw this error message had been included: ‘This is not an error. If you are reading this, something has gone wrong.’
More mysterious: ‘There does not appear to be any code path that results in this message being displayed to the user, which I suppose is actually a good thing. Although I am sure most users would be comforted by the knowledge that if something had gone wrong with their software it was not actually an error.’
Is anyone else finding odd messages hidden in source code? Now that you cannot hide messages backwards
in record grooves, all of you Devil worshippers out there might find this a suitable outlet.
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