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0 pointsphillipcarter2y ago0 comments

Yep. This is similar to a viewpoint by Anders Hejlsberg and many on the C# team at the time: https://www.artima.com/articles/the-trouble-with-checked-exc...

> You see programmers picking up new APIs that have all these throws clauses, and then you see how convoluted their code gets, and you realize the checked exceptions aren't helping them any.

And he goes on to elaborate on how this gets more complicated when versioning is introduced into the mix.

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breadwinner2y ago

Hejlsberg is a terrific compiler writer. Turbo Pascal was awesome! He is not a good language designer, however. The exception mess in C# is the proof. See my comment at the root of this thread.

phillipcarterOP2y ago

Yes, not a good language designer responsible for (checks notes) one of the most-used and most-loved programming languages on the planet.

interlocutor2y ago

Do you mean Turbo Pascal? He didn't design it, Niklaus Wirth did. Or do you mean C#? James Gosling designed most of that (C# got its start by copying 90% of Java). Do you mean TypeScript? That's mostly JavaScript.

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blackoil2y ago

I would say he is one of the better language designers. Unlike many language designed by theorists and academics, he understands how the engineers are using the language and how a feature is used/abused and develops around it.

bheadmaster2y ago

I doubt you can evaluate man's skill through a single project. It's not nice to use ad hominem to advertise your own comment.

4111111111111112y ago

Their comment was the one that this thread is bases on. They're merely pointing out that the original comment already gave an example why its a mess.

I disagree with their point though, in java the lib would've probably just converted the exception to a runtime exception so the API doesn't change...

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