From FB comment
More than 3 decades ago I took programming classes using a mainframe and minicomputer. The error messages were numerous and cryptic, and those were for just a single mistake, such a missing right parenthesis.
One would think that since then, the compilers would be more helpful, but it doesn’t seem so. I’m glad my career was in the hardware side of computers! 😵 👎
I’m not a software geek. But it seems to me that a compiler could do better than give an error message and quit. With today’s “Artificial intelligence” and “Fuzzy logic”, it seems to me that the compiler could learn what mistakes are common, and when an error occurs, it could give a list of possible solutions.
