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		Deestan on June 17, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names If the programmers actually adding the constraint to their systems didn't also believe the falsehoods, they would have written better error messages than, in essence, "You typed your name wrong!".

derefr on June 18, 2010 [–]

User-facing error messages are frequently dictated by the requirements as well.

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