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ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 10, Issue 7

Pages 41 - 45

https://doi.org/10.1145/987305.987313

Published: 01 July 1975 Publication History

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Exception handling design issues are reflected in discussions by Zahn [1] Parnas [2], Hill [3], Elson [4], Organick [5], and myself [6, 7]. The purpose of this paper is to summarize these issues. This summary can be used to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of proposed or existing exception handling language features and as a guide in designing new features.

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Parnas, D. L. Response to detected errors in well-structured programs. Dept. of Comp. Sci., Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa., July 1972.

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Hill, I. D. Faults in functions, in ALGOL and FORTRAN. The Computer Journal 14, 3 (March 1972), 315--316.

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Elson, M. Concepts of Programming Languages. Science Research Assoc., Chicago, Ill., 1973.

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Goodenough, J. B. Structured exception handling. Conf. Record of the Second ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, January 1975, 204--224.

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Goodenough, J. B. Exception handling: Issues and a proposed notation. Comm. ACM, to appear.

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 10, Issue 7

Special issue on programming language design

July 1975

27 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

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DOI:10.1145/987305

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