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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Exceptions
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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:32:11 +0100
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:29:01 -0500, Robert A Duff wrote:

> Ray Blaak <rAYblaaK@STRIPCAPStelus.net> writes:
> 
>> Long experience with Java code leads me to believe they cause more problems
>> then they solve, simply due to the fact that the majority of programmers are
>> coding at a junior or "naive" level.
>>
>> So, when the compiler demands an exception handler, then by golly they
>> provide one -- one that simply swallows the exception with a log of
>> the stack trace.
> 
> This is what I don't get.  I know there are lots of not-so-good
> programmers around, but how hard could it be to teach that "junior"
> programmer how to do this particular thing right?  It's not "rocket
> science".  ;-)  And if the programmer can't learn this much, maybe
> they don't have much aptitude for programming in the first place.

The actual problem is exceptions misused for debugging. A "senior"
programmer would compensate this wrong design, while a "junior" one would
just add more mess.

For debugging there were enough to have some sort of "stop at once"
statement (with breaking into the debugger.)

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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