Creative Computing magazine in the 1970's had this kind of competition: most errors out of the smallest program, in any language. Back that day, it was possibl

Creative Computing magazine in the 1970's had this kind of competition: most errors out of the smallest program, in any language. Back that day, it was possible because parsers tried to repair bad input to try to keep going, in hopes of diagnosing as many real errors as possible, so as to reduce the number of iterations. Iterations used to be expensive: punching corrections onto cards, etc. If the parser repairs bad syntax, it can cause more errors. If a repair involves insertion, there is a risk of getting into an infinite loop of diagnostics, even. It's kind of anachronistic to have people playing this with C++. Why is this 2014? Did that error explosion competition die out? Maybe tumblr isn't where you find C++ people.