Worst Exception!!
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What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!
I'm sure there are lots, however, the one that is currently getting on my nerves is "File not found" being thrown by one of my Python scripts when I try to import a library, despite the fact I damn well know it's installed and working. Python seems very flakey when it comes to libraries, particularly on Windows. One day it works the next it doesn't.
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What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!
"An unexpected error has occured"[^] - you mean, as opposed to a totaly expected error, then? :doh:
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What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!
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object reference not set to an instance of an object index is outside the bounds of the array
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"An unexpected error has occured"[^] - you mean, as opposed to a totaly expected error, then? :doh:
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You should expect exceptions whenever you do something which your code can't guarantee to be successful. And you should write code to catch and handle the problems you expect. Whenever an exception lands in a general exception handler, it obviously was not expected and not really handled, just reported. But I agree, if that's all a program has to say about an error, then the error handling is a little thin.
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Back in my dark COBOL days "Abnormal abend", that could indicate anything.
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<shudder> I'd forgotten that one: OS/360 in my case. And wasn't the explanation helpfull as well? "The RTM2WA is pointed to by the TCB of the failing task (field TCBRTWA), and is listed after the abnormally ending TCB." Why can't you just say "You forgot a comma you idiot" and let us both move on? :laugh:
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You should expect exceptions whenever you do something which your code can't guarantee to be successful. And you should write code to catch and handle the problems you expect. Whenever an exception lands in a general exception handler, it obviously was not expected and not really handled, just reported. But I agree, if that's all a program has to say about an error, then the error handling is a little thin.
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That was about the only error reporting you seemed to get with Microsoft C in the DOS days. Ot at least, the only reporting I can remember. (I couldn't find an image of the DOS screen, where it was that and an "OK" and "Cancel" button, both of which did the same thing: crash.)
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What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!
BSOD
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That was about the only error reporting you seemed to get with Microsoft C in the DOS days. Ot at least, the only reporting I can remember. (I couldn't find an image of the DOS screen, where it was that and an "OK" and "Cancel" button, both of which did the same thing: crash.)
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<shudder> I'd forgotten that one: OS/360 in my case. And wasn't the explanation helpfull as well? "The RTM2WA is pointed to by the TCB of the failing task (field TCBRTWA), and is listed after the abnormally ending TCB." Why can't you just say "You forgot a comma you idiot" and let us both move on? :laugh:
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<shudder> I'd forgotten that one: OS/360 in my case. And wasn't the explanation helpfull as well? "The RTM2WA is pointed to by the TCB of the failing task (field TCBRTWA), and is listed after the abnormally ending TCB." Why can't you just say "You forgot a comma you idiot" and let us both move on? :laugh:
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What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!
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And everything we wrote that long ago was better? :)
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Well, I at least tried to tell the user what he had done wrong. Most of the time. Some of the time, probably. But MS didn't even give a nod towards "user friendly" in those days; it was "user hostile" at best, and "outright hatred" at worst.
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"Error: Cannot delete 6342_637.oft, there is not enough disk space. Delete one or more files to free disk space, and then try again."
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Oh god, I'd forgotten that piece of zen wonderfulnes
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Not an exception but with the same flavour. During windows start-up device detection: "Keyboard error or no keyboard present." and below the well known "Press F1 to continue or ESC to enter SETUP."
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What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!
0xC0000005, aka Windows access violation. Detection is nowhere near the place in your source code that caused the problem, and the actual cause usually has nothing to do with an attempt to access any kind of protected object.Software Zen:
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What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!
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0xC0000005, aka Windows access violation. Detection is nowhere near the place in your source code that caused the problem, and the actual cause usually has nothing to do with an attempt to access any kind of protected object.Software Zen:
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What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!
When things go wrong, even the worst exception is better than no exception. :sigh:
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Not an exception but with the same flavour. During windows start-up device detection: "Keyboard error or no keyboard present." and below the well known "Press F1 to continue or ESC to enter SETUP."
Never underestimate the difference you can make in the lives of others.
Well this is the one I was always facing in my old Celeron box
