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by BasDirks 5173 days ago

  Error handling
  
  If your program has a runtime error or a compiletime error the interpreter
  will print "Parenthesis Mismatch" to standard output and then exit.
Priceless. The sad thing is that most "modern" programming language offer basically identical erro reporting.
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A friend of mine in a compiler writing class produced a compiler with one error message ‘you lied to me when you told me this was a program’. —Pete Fenelon