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The single dumbest message ever emitted by a computer … it’s back

• j_baker 16y ago
  Dumb, but hardly the dumbest. I think "I don't know how to make love" gets my vote.
  • MikeTaylor 16y ago
    That one is a bit of an urban myth: old version of make used to reply "make: don't know how to make love" if you told them to make love and the Makefile in the current directory didn't have a target called "love", but GNU make, which is what you get on most systems now, has for years responded much less poetically with "make: * No rule to make target `love'. Stop." In any case, I don't think the "make love" error message is dumb -- it's just that you can manipulate the program into saying something amusing. The message in the OP, on the other hand, seems to be the result of very confused thinking on the part of the programmer.
• deleted 16y ago
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