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It's impossible to fully print out the environment and state of the program. There's an infinity of combinations of hardware and software a user may have. Also,
by dj_mc_merlin 6y ago
It's impossible to fully print out the environment and state of the program. There's an infinity of combinations of hardware and software a user may have. Also, different mistakes may lead to the same error. This is a reality since it's impossible to predict every error state in a program of any complexity.
Or sometimes it's just more practical to have that information given to you than spend hours REing it.
- Avamander 6y agoYou're mostly correct, but I was poking at the fact that a tremendous amount of software has errors akin to "Something happened (0xcafebabe)" with all the documentation hidden. Error messages common in the industry are the reason most don't bother reading them - they're useless, unactionable and vague.