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Re:On the Impact of Programming Languages on Code Quality by stcredzero on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @02:12PM (#20107444)
Figuratively speaking. None of the languages they test enforce any unit testing.

The trivial type-mistake "Unhandled Exceptions" in Smalltalk would leak out more often than was comfortable, if the project didn't have a good means of testing to catch those. I suspect that has something to do with the Ruby community being more obsessive about testing.

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Re:On the Impact of Programming Languages on Code Quality by igouy on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @03:33PM (#20108277)
> "Unhandled Exceptions" in Smalltalk

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Re:On the Impact of Programming Languages on Code Quality by stcredzero on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @04:29PM (#20108785)
Right. This, and many others, would result in an "Unhandled Exception" notifier dialog in many versions of Smalltalk. I used to work for the company acting as the vendor of 2 (3?) commercial Smalltalks, also doing consulting work for others.
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