[4508] in Athena Bugs
zwgc error message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Mon Mar 12 15:13:15 1990
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 90 15:12:54 -0500
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: marc@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [4502]
There is no excuse for a program that a user runs (either directly or
indirectly like zwgc) to ever print an error message that is not plain
English and does not clearly identify what program had the problem.
While Marc points out that elegant programming style dictates that he
not change that message, style of an implementation must always come
second to a program that works well. Either change the com_err
strings, or punt using com_err; don't use that as an excuse.
-Mark
