Re: COBOL Parsers

thaneH@softwaresimple.com (Thane Hubbell)
25 Apr 2000 02:09:02 -0400

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From: thaneH@softwaresimple.com (Thane Hubbell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.cobol,comp.compilers
Date: 25 Apr 2000 02:09:02 -0400
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Keywords: parse, Cobol

On 20 Apr 2000 01:36:57 -0400, Tim Josling <tej@melbpc.org.au> wrote:
>Similar problems exist in other parts of the language. It is not
>actually rocket science but it does make it hard to provide good error
>messages.


Speaking of error messages, I got an interesting one from the Fujitsu
v5 compiler the other day. Had me laughing.


What it meant to say was "Required file is missing". But what it said
(and remember these messages were translated directly from Japanese
into english):


A file that does not exist was found.


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