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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An error number is something you can google or quote to tech support rather than “some error with those drivers or something”. It also abstracts from all the language issues. You can just print out “0005” instead of error messages in a couple of dozen languages.

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