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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Telling someone exactly what went wrong will be a very lengthy explanation, one that the user might not be able to fix.
Usually the tech support people have a web page or something where they can look up what went wrong and how to fix it.
When they can’t fix it, they pass on the number to the programmer who can look into the code and figure out exactly where the whole thing went wrong, and then reprogram the thing and fix it that way.
Usually when it gets to that point the tech support people will pass even more detailed logs of how it went wrong.

Source: am a programmer.