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From: Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>
To: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
Cc: Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>, tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Conditions, AKA exceptions.
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 12:15:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABH=_VTGAxQbV+=DgY1kc5QOEXrSonep8JzZV+246wrnQ3CqLA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7wwn3o21oa.fsf@junk.nocrew.org>

On 3/10/23, Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> wrote:
>
> Seems to me exceptions are quite mainstream: CLU, C++, Java, C#,
> JavaScript, Python all have them.  Arguably Go too, in the form of
> panic/recover.

PL/I had them from the get-go.  Microsoft added them as an extension to C.

-Paul W.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-10 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-10 12:15 [TUHS] Re: Conditions, AKA exceptions. (Was: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary) Noel Chiappa
2023-03-10 13:09 ` [TUHS] Re: Conditions, AKA exceptions Lars Brinkhoff
2023-03-10 17:15   ` Paul Winalski [this message]
2023-03-10 13:15 ` [TUHS] Re: Conditions, AKA exceptions. (Was: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary) Ralph Corderoy

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