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The programmer’s error message should hold a lot of information and go to a permanent log file.
Their wordsIt should provide a heck of a lot of information, which should be put into a permanent log file, and from which it should be possible to do a post-mortem debugging of the program to see what went wrong.
Our reading
A failing program should show its user a polite error message, preferably with an apology.
Their wordsA polite error message should be shown to the poor unsuspecting user of the program, preferably with a grovelling apology for wasting their time.
Their wordsIf a web site powered by PHP fails to work because it can't connect to a SQL database I don't want to know - really, I don't want to know, I am totally uninterested in this.
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