why do error messages go like “install failure error 0001” instead of telling the user what’s wrong

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why do error messages go like “install failure error 0001” instead of telling the user what’s wrong

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Software Developers are barely given enough time to build the features they are asked for. Often time there’s not enough time or money for proper error handling and human friendly error messages. It’s even harder to justify when they should be the exception, not the norm. Time usually isn’t spent on extreme edge cases until it becomes a problem.