Timeline for Why are errors named as "Exception" but not as "Error" in programming languages?
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| S Oct 7, 2021 at 18:25 | history | edited | lennon310 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Oct 7, 2021 at 18:25 | history | suggested | Milan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 26, 2019 at 19:50 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 26, 2019 at 19:30 | history | protected | gnat | ||
| Jun 6, 2018 at 12:27 | comment | added | Kyralessa | "Why does it call it an exception if it happens every time I run the program?" | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 0:28 | answer | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 15:55 | answer | added | mmehl | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 1, 2012 at 17:32 | answer | added | user71599 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 19, 2012 at 20:51 | answer | added | W8CCW | timeline score: -1 | |
| Aug 19, 2012 at 16:04 | answer | added | Tulains Córdova | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 19, 2012 at 12:29 | answer | added | shibathethinker | timeline score: -1 | |
| Aug 19, 2012 at 12:10 | answer | added | Ankush | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 19, 2012 at 7:17 | history | edited | gnat |
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| Aug 19, 2012 at 6:19 | comment | added | שינתיא אבישגנת | I would like to say that this conundrum has nothing to do with English. It's more a logical categorization in whichever spoken language in which you choose to be proficient. | |
| Aug 19, 2012 at 5:33 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 19, 2012 at 5:16 | answer | added | Abhi Beckert | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 19, 2012 at 5:12 | vote | accept | Tarik | ||
| Aug 19, 2012 at 3:58 | answer | added | HVNSweeting | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 19, 2012 at 0:41 | comment | added | luiscubal | Mind you, Java does have an Error class, which inherits from Throwable. See docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Error.html for more details. You may also like to check the "Direct Known Subclasses" category. | |
| Aug 19, 2012 at 0:16 | answer | added | Fabio Ceconello | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 18, 2012 at 23:57 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackProgrammer/status/236975064975826945 | ||
| Aug 18, 2012 at 23:45 | comment | added | user7043 |
Are you just talking about the naming of the specific exception classes? Then note that in some ecosystems, those are called XYError -- for instance, in Python.
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| Aug 18, 2012 at 23:45 | answer | added | Sergey Kalinichenko | timeline score: 21 | |
| Aug 18, 2012 at 23:32 | answer | added | RalphChapin | timeline score: 69 | |
| Aug 18, 2012 at 23:27 | comment | added | user28988 | It's the difference between swerving the car and crashing the car. | |
| Aug 18, 2012 at 23:26 | answer | added | Ali Jafer | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 18, 2012 at 23:23 | comment | added | Andrew T Finnell | Not all exceptional situations are errors. | |
| Aug 18, 2012 at 23:22 | answer | added | daniel gratzer | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 18, 2012 at 23:13 | history | asked | Tarik | CC BY-SA 3.0 |