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ET phone Luton

Strange messages in code: we do not just want to do error messages, but Rob Leech at Safety Software Limited recalls working for ‘a large chemical manufacturer’, where he encountered ‘an infamous ledger posting routine which had the error statement “Phone Luton”.’
John Hall at Geotrace writes: ‘I came across this in a mature version of ARCserve that we use: “Reinstall the stupid program (which is the worst thing I’ve ever seen)”.’

July 3, 2007 in backbytes | Permalink

Comments

I quite liked the brevity of a connection error in Neoteris. After a couple of failed attempts to connect you got :

'Not Good'

Posted by :Alex Scattergood | July 12, 2007 3:48 PM

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