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Little reminder that there once was a "C++ error message competition" [0] where your score was measured as "the size of the error message divided by the size of the source code". The winning entry had a score of 5.9 billion.

[0] https://tgceec.tumblr.com/post/74534916370/results-of-the-gr...



2014 but still hilarious, although the winner had nothing to do with templates.

From one of the entries:

> Extra credit for using Perl, which is the only language less readable than C++ templates.




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