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From: "Andrew Simmons" <andrew.simmons@monitorbm.co.nz>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] same functions everywhere
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Date: Tue,  6 May 2003 10:16:03 +1200
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Re exceptions, I found the following quote from Stroustrup interesting:

"A notable exception to this agreement was Doug McIlroy, who stated that the
availability of exception handling would make systems less reliable because
library writers and other programmers will throw exceptions rather than try
to understand and handle problems. Only time will tell to what extent Doug's
prediction will be true."