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Surface syntax issues (most of what the complaint is) by and large go away for the experienced programmer. The gcc error is a meaningful problem though. :-/

• tincholio 15y ago
  But that's gcc-specific. Clang does a much better job of error reporting, for example.
  • pnathan 15y ago
    Absolutely. The idea that a compiler/interpreter should give reasonable and intelligent errors is a good one. It's probably the only reasonable critique in the entire blogspew.