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From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
Subject: Re: Exception Handling
Date: 1996/09/16
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In article <323750EA.167E@maths.usyd.edu.au>, Robbie Gates
<robbie@maths.usyd.edu.au> writes: 

|> Where did the concept of exception handling originate ? For example,
|> which languages were first to support this, or which papers first
|> proposed exception handling ?

A good early survey of exception handling can be found in: 

   Goodenough, John B.  Exception handling:  issues and a proposed
   notation.   Communications of the ACM 18, No. 12 (December 1975),
   pp. 683-696

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