The Industry choice

[Aahz]

In article <ImhCd.67875$Jk5.12637 at lakeread01>,
Steve Holden  <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>Aahz wrote:
>> In article <xuTBd.66280$Jk5.42292 at lakeread01>,
>> Steve Holden  <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>>>Aahz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>That's funny -- Bruce Eckel talks about how he used to love checked
>>>>exceptions but has come to regard them as the horror that they are.
>>>>I've learned to just write "throws Exception" at the declaration of
>>>>every method.
>>>
>>>Pretty sloppy, though, no? And surely the important thing is to have a 
>>>broad handler, not a broad specification of raisable exceptions?
>> 
>> Yes, it's sloppy, but I Don't Care.  I'm trying to write usable code
>> while learning a damnably under-documented Java library -- and I'm *not*
>> a Java programmer in the first place, so I'm also fighting with the Java
>> environment.  Eventually I'll add in some better code.
>
>The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

So's the road to unfinished software projects.  The question, as always,
becomes how best to balance the competing requirements and resources.
-- 
Aahz (aahz at pythoncraft.com)           <*>         http://www.pythoncraft.com/

"19. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming,
is not worth knowing."  --Alan Perlis