Exception Handling (when to use it)

[Dirk Koopman]

Peter Corlett wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 10:22:38AM +0100, Chisel Wright wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 01:55:02AM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
>>> I think it's UnicodeString74ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsNoReallyIMeanIt.
>> If the error message is less than 50 lines long it Just Ain't Java.
> 
> Java seems to be proof that people who don't understand COBOL are doomed to
> reinvent it, badly.
> 

And a decent compiled cobol program doesn't run like a snail on mogodon 
either.