Inspired by a link in last week's NTK (which I just got around to reading)
for "Puerile Google Source Code", I decided to see what the most common words
used after "or die" in source code listings are. The clear leader is
"error", with 3,760 hits, being the Right Sort Of Thing To Do. Here's the
rundown for other messages.
oops 261
problem 164
ouch 33
shit 23
uh-oh 16
serious {whatever} 15
damn 11
whoops 11
yikes 8
warning 7
crap 5
oh no 5
fuck 3
bugger 1
eek 1 (from our very own Chris Ball)
oh dear 1
oh shit 1
--
$x='4a75737420616e6f74686572205065726c'# Earle Martin
.'206861636b65720d0a';for(0..26){print # http://downlode.org/
chr(hex(substr($x,$y,2)));$y=$y+2;} # http://grault.net/grubstreet/
