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Exist-entialism

Sometimes your examples of bad English in programming achieve a level that’s almost poetic.
‘This one is from AVG anti-virus protection suite. I have no idea what it means,’ says Ian Hill at RM Consultants.
‘Test cannot be started because already it does not exist,’ it says.
There’s a truth in there somewhere.

Comments

I've just encountered a similar message. It occurred after a successful (I assume) scan.

"Test cannot be started because it already does not exist."
http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/5201/thatswhatyousaybd4.png

Perhaps it meant ~Test instead?

Posted by :Guybrush | September 5, 2007 9:25 PM

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