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A failing program should show its user a polite error message, preferably with an apology.
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What Joe Armstrong actually said
- Joe Armstrong Swedish-based software engineer (1950 to 2019)…
A polite error message should be shown to the poor unsuspecting user of the program, preferably with a grovelling apology for wasting their time.
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↗Fail fast and noisely, fail politelyjoearms.github.io
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