The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

[dgmm]

On Thursday 31 May 2007, Tom Wilson wrote:
> I always liked one of the messages from an old version of the VMS (4 or 5?)
> C compiler(may not be exactly it, but this was included):
>
> Bad Code

Or the Level I BASIC error messages on a TRS-80.

What?

How?

Sorry?

And that's all folks.  The entire repertoire of error reporting on Level I 
Basic :-)

Of course, fitting a BASIC interpretor and OS into only 4K of ROM was quite an 
achievement in itself.  I doubt there were many spare bytes for more 
informative error reports.

-- 
Dave