Incomprehensible programming errors

[nlj]

To help someone to help you, you had best tell us the exact (minimum) set of steps you take to create the error and show us the exact text of a program that causes the error. (Since you say it's every program, best choose a very simple one (like the one called SimpleCounter in the section entitled "Program Catalog and Editor" in the Quick Start Guide, or a program that's even simpler still).

If the error every time is "Error: syntax error", then I don't see how you can complain that the message is incomprehensible -- it says there is a syntax error in your program. (You might legitimately complain that the error message is not very specific, though.)

Are you getting the error message when you press the "Check" button in the Program Editor?