Ideally, a Unix program is silent. Only when a program fails for some reason, it must fail spectacularly, providing the user with detailed, helpful error messages. PFA, topyli, riotkittie, and gord all agree.

sane errors and pie

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2 Responses to “tales from the offtopic #18: sane errors and pie”

  1. IdleOne on December 7th, 2007 15:59

    mmmmmm 3.141509 is delicious!

  2. TuxFeed › The Future. Now on December 22nd, 2007 18:51

    [...] tales from the offtopic #18: sane errors and pie (1) [...]

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