cascade: n. 1. A huge volume of spurious error-message output
produced by a compiler with poor error recovery. Too frequently,
one trivial syntax error (such as a missing `)' or `}') throws the
parser out of synch so that much of the remaining program text is
interpreted as garbaged or ill-formed. 2. A chain of Usenet
followups, each adding some trivial variation or riposte to the text
of the previous one, all of which is reproduced in the new message;
an include war in which the object is to create a sort of communal
graffito.
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