Exception handling

1975/12/01 by John B. Goodenough · 4 citations
Computer Science · #Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies #Computer science #Exception handling #Logic, programming, and type systems #Programming language #Software Engineering Research

paper · pdf · doi:10.1145/361227.361230

openalex publication_date 1975/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21

Abstract

This paper defines exception conditions, discusses the requirements exception handling language features must satisfy, and proposes some new language features for dealing with exceptions in an orderly and reliable way. The proposed language features serve to highlight exception handling issues by showing how deficiencies in current approaches can be remedied.

Citations

• The structure of the “THE”-multiprogramming system
• The humble programmer
• Programming with abstract data types
• Programming with abstract data types
• Structured exception handling
• The impact of language design on the production of reliable software

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