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  • A AlphaDeltaTheta

    What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!

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    Farlop
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    SQL Server: "String or binary data would be truncated" which column? "aaaaah i'm not telling you!!" Drives me mad every time!

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    • A AlphaDeltaTheta

      What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!

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      Multiple-step operation generated errors. Check each status value.

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      • pkfoxP pkfox

        Ah yes the compiler messages of MicroFocus COBOL !!! - miss one full-stop (period) and you would get 1000's of errors. Deep joy.

        When the going gets weird the weird turn pro - Hunter S Thompson RIP

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        BobJanova
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        The Zortech C compiler was a bit like that with any syntax mistake (like missing a semicolon or for sure a brace): look at the first error and ignore the other 200 it generated.

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        • A AlphaDeltaTheta

          What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!

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          Sander Rossel
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          There are quite some Exceptions I really don't like... NullReference, String or binary data would be truncated, that sort of stuff. Mostly because the error doesn't indicate what was null or what data would be truncated. But the worst of them all, mostly because I've seen it not handled correctly way to often, See the inner Exception for details... Ok, so where is that inner exception? Not in some logging, not in some message box, actually it is nowhere! The programmer programming this code did not ever stop to think about the fact that an Exception may have an inner exception. Good luck finding out what's wrong... :sigh: Now comes the fun part. I fixed it and the first Exception I got had an inner exception in the inner exception... Luckily I log exceptions recursively for these cases :)

          It's an OO world.

          public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
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          • pkfoxP pkfox

            Back in my dark COBOL days "Abnormal abend", that could indicate anything.

            When the going gets weird the weird turn pro - Hunter S Thompson RIP

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            sir_download_alot
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            But usually you got an error code and, if didn't helped, a dump which could be analysed. I got mostly 0C7 errors :-)

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            • J Jorgen Andersson

              BSOD

              Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln

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              Is this the same like BYOD? What I really like is BYOB (bring your own bottle) :-)

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              • A AlphaDeltaTheta

                What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!

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                sir_download_alot
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                We had an external consultant, and he implemented a very meaningfull error message for all type of errors: "An Error occured"

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                • J Joezer BH

                  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.

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                  That is so you fix the problem (i.e. plug in a keyboard) before trying to use the computer.

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                  • A AlphaDeltaTheta

                    What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!

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                    BobJanova
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                    "There was an error reading the document" – Adobe's PDF reader when there is an error in your PDF, anywhere in the document. It won't tell you which object or page the error was on, never mind what you actually did wrong.

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                    • P Pete OHanlon

                      I can't remember.

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                      Sentenryu
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                      I (think I) see what you did there :-\

                      I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p) "Given the chance I'd rather work smart than work hard." - PHS241 "'Sophisticated platform' typically means 'I have no idea how it works.'"

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                        I (think I) see what you did there :-\

                        I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p) "Given the chance I'd rather work smart than work hard." - PHS241 "'Sophisticated platform' typically means 'I have no idea how it works.'"

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                        Pete OHanlon
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                        The fact you commented, says you did. Obviously, you and I are more subtle than the others. :-D

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                        • L LloydA111

                          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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                          Quote:

                          One day it works the next it doesn't.

                          Sounds a bit like me! :laugh:

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                          • L Lost User

                            Those are easy to analyze and fix though..

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                            Michael Haines
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                            Yes they are, but when they happen, it means I screwed up as the developer. So, I really hate to see them. "I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand." - Douglas Adams

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                            • pkfoxP pkfox

                              Back in my dark COBOL days "Abnormal abend", that could indicate anything.

                              When the going gets weird the weird turn pro - Hunter S Thompson RIP

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                              Do you work in the Department of Redundancy department? ABEND means "Abnormal End" ... there was no "Abnormal ABEND".

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                              • A AlphaDeltaTheta

                                What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!

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                                The Operationen was completed succsesfully head vs wall

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                                • B BobJanova

                                  "There was an error reading the document" – Adobe's PDF reader when there is an error in your PDF, anywhere in the document. It won't tell you which object or page the error was on, never mind what you actually did wrong.

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                                  Oracle also has a really informative kind of Exception: ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [12333], [205], [70], [164], [], [], [], []

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                                  • S sir_download_alot

                                    Is this the same like BYOD? What I really like is BYOB (bring your own bottle) :-)

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                                    Jorgen Andersson
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                                    In my circles BYOB would definitely be an exception. Except as a present.

                                    Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln

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                                    • A AlphaDeltaTheta

                                      What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!

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                                      Breamore Boy
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                                      Error number 5692305182344859072314609

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                                      • A AlphaDeltaTheta

                                        What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming?? My favourite is Out of Memory!

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                                        Apple used to give ones like An error of type 10 occurred because an error of type 10 occurred.

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                                        • J Jacquers

                                          object reference not set to an instance of an object index is outside the bounds of the array

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                                          Tomz_KV
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                                          Jacquers wrote:

                                          object reference not set to an instance of an object

                                          This exception message is not useful at all. It would be nice if it gives the object name.

                                          TOMZ_KV

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