Which D features to emphasize for academic review article

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Sat Aug 11 03:04:00 PDT 2012


On Saturday, 11 August 2012 at 09:40:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/11/2012 1:57 AM, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
> Because experience shows that even the yellers tend to do the 
> short, convenient one rather than the longer, correct one. 
> Bruce Eckel wrote an article about this years ago in reference 
> to why Java exception specifications were a failure and 
> actually caused people to write bad code, including those who 
> knew better.

I have to agree here.

I spend my work time between JVM and .NET based languages, and
checked exceptions are on my top 5 list of what went wrong with 
Java.

You see lots of

try {
  ...
} catch (Exception e) {
   e.printStackException();
}

in enterprise code.

--
Paulo


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