From 775fb33fc3307b011efaf57d051d235c2df13716 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakob Kaivo Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:26:25 -0400 Subject: add Raymond Chen's quote on exceptions --- quotes | 5 +++++ quotes.raw | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/quotes b/quotes index ff50b98..db65cfc 100644 --- a/quotes +++ b/quotes @@ -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 diff --git a/quotes.raw b/quotes.raw index 1ef3b40..e22e822 100644 --- a/quotes.raw +++ b/quotes.raw @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.1