Re: Over exaggerated negative post on reddit programming
- Posted by Spock May 05, 2015
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I've read this shallow post, and its philosophy is suitable perfectly to an 8 years old child.
I think that some valid points were provided, like the lack of support for try..catch and the fact that many trival things (liek divide by zero) are fatal errors.
The author didn't exactly refer to try/catch (although, possibly he had this in mind):
"E does not recognize exceptions that are common in many object-oriented languages. It also lacks a functional-inspired Option-like type to safely segment away potential non-values from other parts of the language."
Try/catch is not the only way to deal with exceptions. As, no doubt, many will remember in recent discussions on the subject..
But, yes. E does need some way of not dying when a trivial error is encountered. An extremely rapid solution to the DIVIDE BY ZERO condition can be incorporated in the source, in about as much time as it takes to write this sentence. To be honest, I haven't actually looked at the source in years. I wouldn't know if they done it already..
Spock
