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Little reminder that there once was a "C++ error message competition" [0] where your score was measured as "the size of the error message divided by the size of
by fouronnes3 1y ago
Little reminder that there once was a "C++ error message competition" [0] where your score was measured as "the size of the error message divided by the size of the source code". The winning entry had a score of 5.9 billion.
[0] https://tgceec.tumblr.com/post/74534916370/results-of-the-grand-c-error-explosion?is_related_post=1 https://tgceec.tumblr.com/post/74534916370/results-of-the-gr...
- tempodox 1y ago2014 but still hilarious, although the winner had nothing to do with templates. From one of the entries: > Extra credit for using Perl, which is the only language less readable than C++ templates.