Top 3 Worst Error Messages By Programming Languages

Question

1-Assembly : Just Tells That There Is A Wrong Syntax But Doesn't Tell You Where And Let's Complete Building The Program
2-Web Console(HTML, JS, CSS): Just Tells You There Is An Unexpected Syntax Error And Tells You The Line
3-C++: It's Good But Not Enough

Answer 1

Worst Ones assembly just tells a one error for all of the mistakes in the language just a syntax error

Answer 2

@Mark 😂😂😂😂 Sounds Like
Console : I Will Find You And I Will Kill You

Answer 3

@Mazen Lol Assembly Requires almost 15 lines of system and address calls to print "Hello World"

Answer 4

JS - "this is undefined." 🤣 Go figure... 🤣

Answer 5

@~ swim ~ Thought You Were Talking About The Best Ones The Problem With CPP That It Must Tells You
cpp file
error excepected ; before

Answer 6

@~ swim ~ yep

Answer 7

@Nikolay 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 An Easy Language With A Stupid Error Message

Answer 8

But The Top 2 Best Error Messages Are By :
1-Python Tells Exactly What Is The Mistake That You Made
2-Java Explains A Console Error Message With An Understandable Message For The User

Answer 9

@~ swim ~ C++ Can't Beat Python In Showing A Very Clear Error Message For The User

Answer 10

Python Even Shows you The Working Class Or Function And What Is The Type Of It And Which Line And Path

Answer 11

python
Traceback most recent calls/last
file/playground/script.py
line 5
if not True
^
SyntaxError: Invalid Syntax

Answer 12

😁😁

Answer 13

OMG @Nikolay, I hope and pray I will never see that spooky message, like ever... : )

Answer 14

just miss a (;) in CPP, and run the compiler.😂😂

Answer 15

@warlord,
I'm nominating PHP on the worst error message list, I mean, who can figure out what this error means: T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM, and it rarely give you line number either, so I guess it should have a spot on the list : )

Answer 16

@David,
Thank you for the reference, I didn't know the story behind it though, yet I guess the PHP developers could've come up with something more descriptive than that funny symbol, seriously it would help lots of people trying to use PHP : )

Answer 17

Headache errors in C++:
List iterator was not dereferenceable
THIS was 0xDDDDDDD
THIS was 0xCCCCCCC
Write access violation
Read access violation
More of... that.

Answer 18

@Ipang... Your reference to the PHP token name translated to "double colon" from Hebrew reminded me of this excellent post about it.
https://philsturgeon.uk/php/2013/09/09/t-paamayim-nekudotayim-v-sanity/
The story of this token name is absolutely insane. The article is well written and pretty funny.

Answer 19

hey man it's so easy just divide by zero

Answer 20

I've made a switch statement recently, but I couldn't run the programme, cuz "impossible to jump to case 5"
Also, I couldn't fix that so I left the code...
(C++)