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Thats almost the same as someone claiming Python is a huge fail - because he didn't know how to configure his editor properly. Alas, poor error messages are a

• ascendant 16y ago
  I think it's a valid point. Regardless of the fact his editor wasn't configured properly, the fact that the error messages that were generated did not IMMEDIATELY point him in the right direction is a problem with the language and the compiler. Any good product attempts to alleviate human error as much as possible. Obviously in this person's case that goal wasn't achieved.
• MatthewPhillips 16y ago
  I didn't say the language was a huge fail. I don't have a background with indented languages, and although the code looked correct to me, it wasn't, and not having the knowledge of what could be wrong, I was dependent on the compiler, which gave me no help. I'm ok with curly brackets and semi-colons, so there wasn't any reason to continue wasting my time in a fruitless attempt to figure out what I did wrong. I'm not down on the language at all, bad compiler errors are expected in one year old languages. I'll give it another look on my next project.