[JepZ]

In general, I agree that juniors tend to skip useful information, but it depends a bit on the technology you are working with. PHP, for example, was known to report the error for the line after the one you forgot the semicolon at or at the line after the last line of the file when a parenthesis was missing somewhere.

While there is a reason why it did so, those are error messages which are quite hard to understand the first few times they occur to you.

Nevertheless, those lousy error message should be exceptions nowadays, and if you are using decent technologies, the chances are much higher, that you just didn't read the error message not careful enough to understand the problem.

[C4stor]

My comment is a bit extreme in its tone indeed !

It's just that it's the advice I've given the most by orders of magnitudes, and I'm still amazed (and a bit weary) it's worth even mentioning. And to make it stick, I've removed any nuance of it...