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  • L LloydA111

    I'm sure there are lots, however, the one that is currently getting on my nerves is "File not found" being thrown by one of my Python scripts when I try to import a library, despite the fact I damn well know it's installed and working. Python seems very flakey when it comes to libraries, particularly on Windows. One day it works the next it doesn't.

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    CHill60
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    Quote:

    One day it works the next it doesn't.

    Sounds a bit like me! :laugh:

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    • L Lost User

      Those are easy to analyze and fix though..

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      Michael Haines
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      Yes they are, but when they happen, it means I screwed up as the developer. So, I really hate to see them. "I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand." - Douglas Adams

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      • pkfoxP pkfox

        Back in my dark COBOL days "Abnormal abend", that could indicate anything.

        When the going gets weird the weird turn pro - Hunter S Thompson RIP

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        jibalt
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        Do you work in the Department of Redundancy department? ABEND means "Abnormal End" ... there was no "Abnormal ABEND".

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        • A AlphaDeltaTheta

          What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!

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          The Operationen was completed succsesfully head vs wall

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          • B BobJanova

            "There was an error reading the document" – Adobe's PDF reader when there is an error in your PDF, anywhere in the document. It won't tell you which object or page the error was on, never mind what you actually did wrong.

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            theliberator
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            Oracle also has a really informative kind of Exception: ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [12333], [205], [70], [164], [], [], [], []

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            • S sir_download_alot

              Is this the same like BYOD? What I really like is BYOB (bring your own bottle) :-)

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              Jorgen Andersson
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              In my circles BYOB would definitely be an exception. Except as a present.

              Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln

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              • A AlphaDeltaTheta

                What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!

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                Breamore Boy
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                Error number 5692305182344859072314609

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                • A AlphaDeltaTheta

                  What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!

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                  aayawa
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                  Apple used to give ones like An error of type 10 occurred because an error of type 10 occurred.

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                  • J Jacquers

                    object reference not set to an instance of an object index is outside the bounds of the array

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                    Tomz_KV
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                    Jacquers wrote:

                    object reference not set to an instance of an object

                    This exception message is not useful at all. It would be nice if it gives the object name.

                    TOMZ_KV

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                    • A AlphaDeltaTheta

                      What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!

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                      Keyboard error Press F1

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                      • A AlphaDeltaTheta

                        What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!

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                        Lost User
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                        I guess the worst exception I have seen is the "uncaught exception"... That one who calls std::terminate() and then calls abort() :P Saludos!! ____ichr@mm :wq

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                        • A AlphaDeltaTheta

                          What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!

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                          Seems to me that worst is being interpreted as either: nonsensical, useless (programmer too lazy to write a meaningful message), or a dreaded message, where something bad really did happen. Here is a nonsensical one: One recent message in my Windows-7 system event log was The service failed to start. Reason: The service finished successfully.

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                            What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!

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                            scosta_FST
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                            "Catastrophic error" is a real message I've seen years ago, from Windows XP.

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                            • pkfoxP pkfox

                              Ah yes the compiler messages of MicroFocus COBOL !!! - miss one full-stop (period) and you would get 1000's of errors. Deep joy.

                              When the going gets weird the weird turn pro - Hunter S Thompson RIP

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                              BrainiacV
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                              Hahahaha...Reminds me of a COBOL program I wrote in high school. I tried to write a COBOL without the temporary storage. I tried to go from the input field directly to the output field. My one (or two) page program generated 200 pages of error messages.

                              Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.

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                              • A AlphaDeltaTheta

                                What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!

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                                BrainiacV
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                                I always hated working in Oracle's PL/SQL. I'd get "BAD END STATEMENT", which I finally tracked down to mean "LABEL NOT FOUND". I guess it found the end of the program before it found the label it was looking for and decided it was the end statement's fault. I'm sorry, I wrote a better interpreter in high school when I made a program that would read symbolic labeled BASIC programs and generate the version with line numbers (that was required at that time). I was slowly wallpapering my cubicle with Oracle error messages and their real meaning. The Oracle database engine may have been programmed by the A-Team, but I always thought the programming interface was written by the F Troop. To this day, I refuse to do Oracle database programming.

                                Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.

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                                • F Farlop

                                  SQL Server: "String or binary data would be truncated" which column? "aaaaah i'm not telling you!!" Drives me mad every time!

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                                  StatementTerminator
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                                  The offending value would be kinda nice to know as well! I once had to deal with this in a daily import file that we were processing from another company. The file had tens of thousands of records, and I wrote the code to import the data into our system. Someone at the company who gave us the import file liked to go in and make manual edits once in a while...yeah. The specs were not meant as suggestions. So I had one bad value in one field of one record in a large import file, causing the whole import to bomb, and no clue other than a guess at which columns were suspect. Thanks MS SQL. I had to implement a binary search to cast values in the file until I found the bad one. Good times.

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                                  • A AlphaDeltaTheta

                                    What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!

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                                    Harley L Pebley
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                                    The one that should be raised but isn't, or caught and simply ignored, causing the application to not work correctly with no indication as to why.

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                                    • A AlphaDeltaTheta

                                      What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!

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                                      Peter Webb
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                                      Up until yesterday "Out of Memory" was my worst exception. By coincidence, today I found out was not actually an exception, but an error condition in Java, which explains why I wasn't catching it. So now its been promoted to worst throwable. And I hate pretty much everything you can throw.

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                                      • S sir_download_alot

                                        We had an external consultant, and he implemented a very meaningfull error message for all type of errors: "An Error occured"

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                                        StatementTerminator
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                                        LOL, this kind of lazy exception "handling" is worse than none at all :) But why should a consultant care, they don't have to actually maintain the code.

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                                        • A AlphaDeltaTheta

                                          What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!

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                                          Dark Pallys
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                                          "Catastrophic Failure", no more, no less. No error code, no reference to where the error came from or how it got there..... SIGH! There's nothing worse than getting an error like that after a 12 hour coding session...

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