One of my personal favorites concerns the guys at AT&T who decided to put some error messages in the original kernel code in Latin... if you ever saw one it was bad news because they were all of a "you should NEVER see this error" nature. A friend who knew Latin got a call from someone who was trying to port Unix to a Burroughs Mainframe (don't ask me why!) and he had gotten the following error message before the system crashed hard:
Ecce! Hodie natus est pro geminus Radicus! The translation: "Behold! Unto us is born a twin to Root!" It has made me stop and think about what to put into those error messages "that will never be seen...". They will be seen... The Latin error messages are now (appropriately) ancient history. Richard Wilson --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss