# Frustrated with frustrated beginners

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**Created:** [April 26, 2022, 7:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/frustrated-with-frustrated-beginners/80067 "2022-04-26T07:02:36Z")\
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> [@chadagreene](#):
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> It should be okay to point out how cryptic and unhelpful an error message is.

I agree. But on reflection, wasn’t the error message actually pretty _good_? It’s just the stack trace (coming after) that was daunting, and probably distracting.

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