In our programming class in high school we were using Borland C++; I had a classmate call me over to ask about an error they were getting from the compiler.

> "Missing semicolon on line 32"

I looked at it, looked at them, and said "You're missing a semicolon on line 32". They looked at line 32 and, hey! look at that! Forgot a semicolon at the end. Added it and their program worked fine.

Even the best error messages can't help some people.