← Back to context Comment by rzimmerman 3 years ago Kids today will never know the joy of "On Error Resume Next" 7 comments rzimmerman Reply bjoli 3 years ago Man, you made me think of this old gem: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts96J7HhO28 pcblues 3 years ago My greatest shame as a young developer was wrapping a Delphi application in an exception handler and re-running itself when it crashed. rvense 3 years ago Nono, this is called "let it crash" philosophy, you just reinvented Erlang and you're actually a genius! kijin 3 years ago It's called try { doSomething(); } catch(e) {} these days. :) pieter_mj 3 years ago I'm still programming in VBA today. I name the error handling labels try: and catch: and finally: :). My attempt to introduce some modernity into the language (the'try:'-label is obviously obsolete and is a mere indicator). orthoxerox 3 years ago I've always preferred On Error GoTo Hell layer8 3 years ago That’s what shell scripts do by default, so I would argue that kids today actually do know.
pcblues 3 years ago My greatest shame as a young developer was wrapping a Delphi application in an exception handler and re-running itself when it crashed. rvense 3 years ago Nono, this is called "let it crash" philosophy, you just reinvented Erlang and you're actually a genius!
rvense 3 years ago Nono, this is called "let it crash" philosophy, you just reinvented Erlang and you're actually a genius!
kijin 3 years ago It's called try { doSomething(); } catch(e) {} these days. :) pieter_mj 3 years ago I'm still programming in VBA today. I name the error handling labels try: and catch: and finally: :). My attempt to introduce some modernity into the language (the'try:'-label is obviously obsolete and is a mere indicator). orthoxerox 3 years ago I've always preferred On Error GoTo Hell
pieter_mj 3 years ago I'm still programming in VBA today. I name the error handling labels try: and catch: and finally: :). My attempt to introduce some modernity into the language (the'try:'-label is obviously obsolete and is a mere indicator). orthoxerox 3 years ago I've always preferred On Error GoTo Hell
layer8 3 years ago That’s what shell scripts do by default, so I would argue that kids today actually do know.
Man, you made me think of this old gem: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts96J7HhO28
My greatest shame as a young developer was wrapping a Delphi application in an exception handler and re-running itself when it crashed.
Nono, this is called "let it crash" philosophy, you just reinvented Erlang and you're actually a genius!
It's called
these days. :)
I'm still programming in VBA today. I name the error handling labels try: and catch: and finally: :). My attempt to introduce some modernity into the language (the'try:'-label is obviously obsolete and is a mere indicator).
I've always preferred On Error GoTo Hell
That’s what shell scripts do by default, so I would argue that kids today actually do know.