From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,99e2dadd49ce1936 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 107d55,99e2dadd49ce1936 X-Google-Attributes: gid107d55,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,99e2dadd49ce1936 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,99e2dadd49ce1936 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: Robbie Gates Subject: Re: Exception Handling Date: 1996/09/13 Message-ID: <3238B024.794B@maths.usyd.edu.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 180269391 distribution: inet references: <323750EA.167E@maths.usyd.edu.au> <519bl1$bta@lace.colorado.edu> <1996Sep12.180552.1@eisner> followup-to: poster content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: School of Mathematics and Statistics, Sydney University mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.java.tech,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; OSF1 V3.0 alpha) Date: 1996-09-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- robbie gates | apprentice algebraist | http://cat.maths.usyd.edu.au/~robbie pgp key available |