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authorJakob Kaivo <jkk@ung.org>2020-09-24 10:26:25 -0400
committerJakob Kaivo <jkk@ung.org>2020-09-24 10:26:25 -0400
commit775fb33fc3307b011efaf57d051d235c2df13716 (patch)
treeba82758aee5246e6076015cee7554ad71d03cb13
parent35a2533e004133161e35957f23f2fd3fadc06a92 (diff)
add Raymond Chen's quote on exceptions
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@@ -40,3 +40,8 @@ It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but
when there is nothing more to remove.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
+%
+My point isn't that exceptions are bad. My point is that exceptions are too
+hard and I'm not smart enough to handle them.
+ -- Raymond Chen, "Cleaner, more elegant, and harder to recognize"
+ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050114-00/?p=36693
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@@ -29,3 +29,7 @@ One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.
It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
+%
+My point isn't that exceptions are bad. My point is that exceptions are too hard and I'm not smart enough to handle them.
+ -- Raymond Chen, "Cleaner, more elegant, and harder to recognize"
+ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050114-00/?p=36693