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Re:Unchecked Java: Say Goodbye to Checked Exceptions Forever by breadwinner on Thursday July 13, 2023 @09:23PM (#36718315)
Hejlsberg is a terrific compiler writer. Turbo Pascal was awesome! He is not a good language designer, however. The exception mess in C# is the proof. See my comment at the root of this thread.
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Re:Unchecked Java: Say Goodbye to Checked Exceptions Forever by bheadmaster on Friday July 14, 2023 @01:45AM (#36719914)
I doubt you can evaluate man's skill through a single project. It's not nice to use ad hominem to advertise your own comment.
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Re:Unchecked Java: Say Goodbye to Checked Exceptions Forever by 411111111111111 on Friday July 14, 2023 @11:45AM (#36725641)
Their comment was the one that this thread is bases on. They're merely pointing out that the original comment already gave an example why its a mess.

I disagree with their point though, in java the lib would've probably just converted the exception to a runtime exception so the API doesn't change...

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Re:Unchecked Java: Say Goodbye to Checked Exceptions Forever by phillipcarter on Friday July 14, 2023 @10:17AM (#36724369)
Yes, not a good language designer responsible for (checks notes) one of the most-used and most-loved programming languages on the planet.
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Re:Unchecked Java: Say Goodbye to Checked Exceptions Forever by interlocutor on Friday July 14, 2023 @11:02AM (#36724976)
Do you mean Turbo Pascal? He didn't design it, Niklaus Wirth did. Or do you mean C#? James Gosling designed most of that (C# got its start by copying 90% of Java). Do you mean TypeScript? That's mostly JavaScript.
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Re:Unchecked Java: Say Goodbye to Checked Exceptions Forever by phillipcarter on Friday July 14, 2023 @11:59AM (#36725840)
You're certainly entitled to your opinions.
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Re:Unchecked Java: Say Goodbye to Checked Exceptions Forever by peterashford on Sunday July 16, 2023 @04:43AM (#36744852)
Those are facts
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Re:Unchecked Java: Say Goodbye to Checked Exceptions Forever by blackoil on Friday July 14, 2023 @12:58PM (#36726601)
I would say he is one of the better language designers. Unlike many language designed by theorists and academics, he understands how the engineers are using the language and how a feature is used/abused and develops around it.
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