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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52fd60a337c05842 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-17 13:54:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!jfk3-feed1.news.algx.net!allegiance!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!uunet!ash.uu.net!spool0900.news.uu.net!reader0900.news.uu.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D0E4C9B.4030202@mail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 16:54:51 -0400 From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020614 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture The Emperor's Old Clothes References: <3D0B813A.3040204@attbi.com> <3D0BEF81.8010704@mail.com> <3D0E4184.4070207@attbi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: KBC Financial Products Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@fixedcost.nyc.kbcfp.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.253.250.10 X-Trace: 1024347292 reader0.ash.ops.us.uu.net 2904 204.253.250.10 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26181 Date: 2002-06-17T16:54:51-04:00 List-Id: Robert I. Eachus wrote: > No. Input output routines may need to do error checking, but that is > not an exceptional occurrence, and is usually not treated as one. Oh, good lord! Do you program in the real world? In the real world, remote CORBA servers go down. In the real world, remote databse servers go down. Most of the time they don't, so when they do, you throw an exception when you lose connectivity so you don't blithely ignore the problem, but you also don't litter every step of the way with checks.