A14M · Mar 30, 2024

Clean code and the exception handling

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Exceptions are as old as programming itself. Back in the days when programming
was done in hardware, or via low-level programming languages,
exceptions were used to alter the flow of the program,
and to avoid hardware failures. Today, Wikipedia defines exceptions as: 
 
 the process of responding to the occurrence of exceptions
– anomalous or exceptional conditions…

Exceptions are as old as programming itself. Back in the days when programming was done in hardware, or via low-level programming languages, exceptions were used to alter the flow of the program, and to avoid hardware failures. Today, Wikipedia defines exceptions as:

the process of responding to the occurrence of exceptions – anomalous or exceptional conditions requiring special processing – during the execution of a program. In general, an exception breaks the normal flow of execution and executes a pre-registered exception handler…

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