From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
Subject: Re: The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture The Emperor's Old Clothes
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 13:08:06 -0400
Date: 2002-06-18T13:08:06-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D0F68F6.8030208@mail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uelf4zlcw.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov
Stephen Leake wrote:
> Sounds like a good partial plan. How do you handle the exceptions at
> the top level?
Log the error, attempt to reconnect to the service, start
a fallback server if that fails, etc.
> In this world, exceptions are used during the debug and test phases,
> and sometimes the compiler checks are turned off for the final build,
> because we've proven that they will never fail.
Well, it's nice for you that you can stay in your little
box, but not all software is so self-contained. There are
*a lot* of situations where things work the vast majority
of the time, but sometimes don't. Those are the cases where
exception-based error handling shines.
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2002-06-14 0:49 ada paper critic Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14 1:28 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14 1:43 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14 4:53 ` David Marceau
2002-06-14 6:40 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14 6:49 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-14 12:18 ` Baugereau
2002-06-14 16:30 ` David Marceau
2002-06-14 17:34 ` Baugereau
2002-06-14 19:01 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-14 19:43 ` Baugereau
2002-06-15 3:02 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2002-06-15 9:49 ` Pascal Obry
2002-06-17 15:53 ` Dan Andreatta
2002-06-17 18:20 ` Pascal Obry
2002-06-17 20:56 ` Michael Bode
2002-06-17 21:18 ` Pascal Obry
2002-06-16 21:52 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 20:02 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14 3:14 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 4:35 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14 8:05 ` David Marceau
2002-06-14 12:31 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14 15:08 ` Darren New
2002-06-17 0:17 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-14 19:05 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-16 3:34 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-16 3:32 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14 8:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-06-14 12:19 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14 14:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-06-14 15:09 ` Darren New
2002-06-16 22:49 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-06-16 15:07 ` Jim Rogers
2002-06-17 4:06 ` Darren New
2002-06-17 4:52 ` Jim Rogers
2002-06-17 9:45 ` David Marceau
2002-06-17 15:42 ` Darren New
2002-06-17 3:59 ` Darren New
2002-06-17 22:19 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-06-14 12:58 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-14 22:16 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-15 1:22 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-15 0:51 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-15 11:49 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-15 21:45 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-14 14:59 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-16 3:27 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-16 22:18 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-16 22:38 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 15:00 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 20:13 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-14 18:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-15 22:03 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-16 1:58 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-16 3:19 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-16 22:20 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-17 1:57 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-17 2:16 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-14 15:25 ` John R. Strohm
2002-06-15 4:05 ` Lyle McKennot
2002-06-17 13:32 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-15 4:06 ` The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture The Emperor's Old Clothes Lyle McKennot
2002-06-15 13:45 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-15 13:55 ` Ed Falis
2002-06-15 15:03 ` Pat Rogers
2002-06-15 18:42 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-16 22:25 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-15 18:01 ` Robert I. Eachus
2002-06-16 1:53 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-17 20:06 ` Robert I. Eachus
2002-06-17 20:54 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-18 14:56 ` Stephen Leake
2002-06-18 17:08 ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
2002-06-16 3:15 ` Lyle McKennot
2002-06-16 3:51 ` Pat Rogers
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2002-06-15 8:34 ` Lyle McKennot
2002-06-15 17:32 ` Gautier
2002-06-19 7:07 ` Peter Amey
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