From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Ada exception block does NOT work?
Date: 20 Aug 2005 23:02:46 -0500
Date: 2005-08-20T23:02:46-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Uuyr5tJGOVY9@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: IjMNe.9543$RS.2954@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net
In article <wccslx4gumc.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>, Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:
> "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com> writes:
>
>> Robert A Duff wrote:
>>
>> > Ada was certainly not the first language with exceptions.
>> > Does anybody know which one was? And were they called "exceptions"
>> > and were they "raised" and "handled"?
>>
>> Perhaps I should have added a smiley in there.
>
> ;-)
>
>>... But between Ada and those
>> using the C++ notation, Ada was certainly first.
>
> Indeed. I do prefer "raise/handle" to "throw/catch", but maybe because
> that's what I'm used to.
>
> There are also exceptions in the hardware world, variously called
> "exceptions", "traps", and "synchronous interrupts". I'm talking about
> divide-by-zero, overflow, and the like. Surely the software concept
> came from that?
VMS had exception handlers/signal handlers in 1978 with most languages
establishing handlers by calls to runtime routines.
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2005-08-16 8:48 Ada exception block does NOT work? bubble
2005-08-16 9:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-08-16 9:32 ` bubble
2005-08-16 9:42 ` gautier_niouzes
2005-08-16 15:25 ` Frank J. Lhota
2005-08-16 16:58 ` Svesse
2005-08-16 17:48 ` Björn Persson
2005-08-16 18:12 ` Svesse
2005-08-16 18:17 ` Frank J. Lhota
2005-08-17 10:53 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-08-17 11:34 ` Anders Wirzenius
2005-08-17 18:08 ` Björn Persson
2005-08-17 19:05 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-08-18 15:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-08-16 12:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-08-16 17:39 ` Björn Persson
2005-08-16 19:43 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-08-17 1:39 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-08-17 7:22 ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-08-18 1:05 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-08-18 8:44 ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-08-18 11:40 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-08-18 12:56 ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-08-18 14:42 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-08-18 18:03 ` Martin Krischik
2005-08-18 13:15 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2005-08-18 15:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-08-18 18:00 ` Martin Krischik
2005-08-18 16:13 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-08-18 16:38 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-08-18 18:07 ` jimmaureenrogers
2005-08-18 18:44 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-08-18 20:52 ` Frank J. Lhota
2005-08-19 0:57 ` jimmaureenrogers
2005-08-19 7:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-08-19 14:41 ` Robert A Duff
2005-08-19 17:48 ` Martin Krischik
2005-08-19 14:58 ` Robert A Duff
2005-08-18 17:54 ` Martin Krischik
2005-08-18 20:56 ` Robert A Duff
2005-08-18 22:01 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-08-19 2:35 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-08-20 15:28 ` Robert A Duff
2005-08-20 20:24 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-08-20 21:34 ` Robert A Duff
2005-08-20 22:47 ` Frank J. Lhota
2005-08-20 23:34 ` Robert A Duff
2005-08-21 11:18 ` Simon Wright
2005-08-21 16:59 ` tmoran
2005-08-21 19:48 ` Simon Wright
2005-08-21 16:07 ` Frank J. Lhota
2005-08-21 16:23 ` Martin Krischik
2005-08-21 1:12 ` Björn Persson
2005-08-21 9:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-08-21 16:14 ` Martin Krischik
2005-08-21 4:02 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2005-08-19 12:34 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2005-08-19 17:29 ` Martin Krischik
2005-08-19 18:14 ` Frank J. Lhota
2005-08-21 16:02 ` Martin Krischik
2005-08-21 16:48 ` Frank J. Lhota
2005-08-22 15:51 ` Martin Krischik
2005-08-23 0:32 ` Larry Elmore
[not found] ` <h5dlg1tsie8n3ikirvbi508t9afobhctkj@4ax.com>
2005-08-23 18:09 ` Martin Krischik
2005-08-23 19:50 ` C history Björn Persson
2005-08-27 21:09 ` Ada exception block does NOT work? Dave Thompson
2005-08-24 1:07 ` Larry Elmore
2005-08-24 2:36 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-08-25 0:14 ` Larry Elmore
2005-08-26 2:44 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-08-24 16:44 ` Martin Krischik
2005-08-22 8:12 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-08-18 21:15 ` Robert A Duff
2005-08-19 12:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-08-17 20:24 ` Simon Wright
2005-08-18 19:36 ` Björn Persson
2005-08-18 21:07 ` Simon Wright
2005-08-22 10:47 ` bubble
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