What the heck is 'le null'??

So let me preface this by saying I have nothing against the French, but today I reminded myself why programming especially with an international community can be a headache inducing experience.

I had sampled some SNMP library code which as it turns out was jointly worked on by a few people in Belgium, France and the US. The catch was as I was testing out a sample app showing the interface usage in comes the dreaded null pointer exception.

One key problem neither the sample code, nor the library source appeared to have any exception handling. So here I am scouring the source for anything. Finally I figured that the problem was I was missing a usable input file and the file path object was null. Great one down... then *blam* le null again!!

On the upside I did eventually get the test application working, but we'll see if I'm actually able to get a useful app out of the DLLs.