Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.posted.palinacquisition!news.posted.palinacquisition.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 23:20:56 -0600 From: Peter Duniho Subject: Re: Quick Error Handling Question Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <1ot1bq1swur7q.ay2q7xzsolue$.dlg@40tude.net> <4f5416dc$0$293$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <13qi8wqf9y45o$.ggk1eaoduhcg$.dlg@40tude.net> <4f541dba$0$295$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <1tx3n082xjsuu.1o7ospkcc8mvz$.dlg@40tude.net> <4f542815$0$281$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <123q3u4fnul51$.1uq3obmo2035u$.dlg@40tude.net> <4f5436aa$0$284$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 21:20:53 -0800 Message-ID: Lines: 19 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 50.46.118.188 X-Trace: sv3-sVtdgzBT5e93xf3NWMMOt46G2X4x7x8XroHCe9DjwQ3yakq8/wVMjrf/3SQM/CThIgaMIvpEp8yN5LV!HJKKh+wKS5H5kHMdXr16d/qh70AGcH9oKmhur4VexAUr9Bp31st3Txa9KHLExgvB+f1IlRcPGJTr!8IdcAdSN6lyeMNOtLc+rFA== X-Complaints-To: abuse@iinet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@iinet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2178 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:12700 On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:44:42 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > [...] > So you admit that your question about whether I had "seen the OP's > program" was completely bogus? No, of course not. > [...] > And besides I am not interested in hello world programs. And > it seems based on host questions that OP has also moved on > to real programs. There is a whole continuum between the simplest and most complicated program. It is trivially obvious that, given the very simplest program does not need to be written with every "best practice" in mind, that there are some programs besides that very simplest one that also do not. Programming is not as black and white as you would like it to be.