Re: Exception Handling

[Robbie Gates <robbie@maths.usyd.edu.au>]

Firstly, an open apology to the people annoyed by my post.  I realise
now it was unecessarily terse, but it didn't seem like a complex
question
nor one needing long discussion.  live & learn.

I (robbie@maths.usyd.edu.au) wrote:
> >>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.

Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> With 5 newsgroups getting the post, I can see why not.
Another reason i wanted replies by email, to avoid this sort of
crossposting.  I'm only crossposting this so i can say sorry to
those i've incovenienced.  I do read one of the groups (evidently),
i didn't want to have to track 5 groups for what should have been
an easy answer.

wilcoxb@cs.colorado.edu (Bryce) writes:
> > Hm.  University must be in session again.  Are there any other
> > homework questions you would like me to answer while I'm at it?
Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> Bryce, the fact that you would be doing somebody's homework for
> them should certainly not deter you from providing answers.

For the record, it's not homework, i should have explained more fully.
I'm a pure math phd student, and part of my work provides a nice
model of some parts of programming, in particular exception handling.
i'd like to give proper credit to the originator of the concept, and
will of course acknowledge my sources and the people who helped me
find them.

none of my C++ or Java books actually said where the idea came
from, and so i figured it wasn't common practice in books on programming
to actually say where features originated.  Hence a library search
seemed
pointless with some information to narrow it, hence my post.
judging from my difficulty in finding the answer in places i expected
to find it, a post to several newsgroups on languages i do know support
exception handling didn't seem overkill.

> The rest of us will understand, however, if you choose not to
> provide _correct_ answers :-)
i don't know about you, but i would hardly believe anything i read
on usenet unless i could independently verify the referenced sources.

'nuff said, i'm sorry & i hope y'all understand my position a little
better now.

- robbie

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