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Did anyone else think this was going to be about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_error from statistics? I just think of the computing term as 'stderr'.


Do you pronounce it 'stidder'?

And before reading the article I already had the impression that it came from someone seeing error messages going to an awfully inappropriate place.


Came here for a weird anecdote about stderr's birth yes..


Yeah. I did. It made sense when I saw the article, but I was confused for a second.


Being an avid "nixer" I immediately thought of the following:

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp?topic=...


stderr is what I expected, and what I've found.


So disappoint




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