From: Rick Decker <rdecker@hamilton.edu>
To: robbie@maths.usyd.edu.au
Subject: Re: Exception Handling
Date: 1996/09/12
Date: 1996-09-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <323855BA.5246@hamilton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: DxMJG2.78B@ecf.toronto.edu
Patrick Doyle wrote:
>
> In article <323750EA.167E@maths.usyd.edu.au>,
> Robbie Gates <robbie@maths.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
> >Hi all,
> > Just a quick query:
> >Where did the concept of exception handling originate ? For example,
> >which languages were first to support this, or which papers first
> >proposed exception handling ?
> > replies by email please, i don't read this group.
> >- robbie
>
> Ha ha ha!
>
> Well, if you're not going to bother reading this, I won't bother
> writing it.
>
> -PD
Robbie,
Perhaps a more felicitous wording might have been "please reply by
email if you don't want to clutter up your group with replies
to my query." Although opinions differ, it's usually considered
polite when you ask a question of a newsgroup to lurk around for
a few days to see what answers you get. Though most newsreaders
give the option of an email response, that feature doesn't exist
(or doesn't work) on all, so asking for an email response requires
extra work for some people.
BTW, PL/I is usually credited for first using exceptions, though
rudimentary forms existed as far back as COBOL.
Regards,
Rick
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Rick Decker rdecker@hamilton.edu
Department of Comp. Sci. 315-859-4785
Hamilton College
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-09-12 0:00 Exception Handling Robbie Gates
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Rick Decker [this message]
1996-09-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Bryce
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-13 0:00 ` Robbie Gates
1996-09-14 0:00 ` Paul A. Houle
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Rick Decker
1996-09-13 0:00 ` Felix Kasza
1996-09-13 0:00 ` David B. Shapcott [C]
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Bart Termorshuizen
1996-09-16 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Robin Vowels
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Bob Halpern
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Fritz Schneider
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Robin Vowels
1996-10-09 0:00 ` shmuel
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Bob Halpern
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Exception Handling - Test Please Ignore jekis
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Exception Handling Thiago
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-05-29 0:00 NANCY HEHIR
2000-05-29 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-05-30 0:00 ` Jeffrey D. Cherry
2000-05-30 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-06-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-06-01 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-06-01 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-06-01 0:00 ` Jeffrey D. Cherry
2000-06-02 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2000-06-02 0:00 ` Jeffrey D. Cherry
2000-06-01 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-06-01 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
2000-06-02 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-06-02 0:00 ` Jeffrey D. Cherry
2000-05-30 0:00 ` Antonio Dur�n Dom�nguez
2000-05-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-28 0:00 Robert Dewar
1996-09-17 0:00 John Goodenough
1996-09-17 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-13 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-15 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Robin Vowels
1986-05-13 22:57 exception handling MIXSIM
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