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when I was your age... (Score:2)
There is historical justification for a compiler to do this. Back in the days of punch cards and line printers, the time between submitting a job to compile a program and seeing the result was measured in minutes, hours, or days. So, it was extremely important for the compiler to tell you about as many errors as possible in a single run so that you could fix as much as possible before sending the job back again.
Nowadays, with interactive computers, the sumit/run/result cycle is measured in fractions of a second - so you just fix the first error and don't even try to figure out which of the following errors are cascaded consequences of the first and which are separate errors but just compile it again immediately.
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