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Unable to write 'Amusing Weekly Column'. Abort, Retry, Fail?

MadDrFrank

Re: One from years ago...

One example was the Algol 60 compiler XALT on ICL 1900 systems.

Some syntax errors could produce the message

"IMPOSS HAPPENED LINE ****"

where **** was a number far greater than the number of lines in the submitted code.

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