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From: ciaraldi@rochester.UUCP (Mike Ciaraldi)
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Subject: Error messages
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Date: Tue, 1-Nov-83 18:48:27 EST
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From: Mike Ciaraldi  <ciaraldi>
FYI
Creative Computing magazine held a contest several years
ago for the shortest program that could produce the most
error messages.

Winner was a single  punch card containing a single period (dot).

On the IBM 370 COBOL compiler, it produced over 600 error messages.
"Missing Data Division", "missing declaration", etc., etc.