Open Source Programmers Stink At Error Handling

Mark Cappel writes: "LinuxWorld columnist Nick Petreley has a few choice words for for the open source community in 'Open source programmers stink at error handling'. Do you think commercial software handles errors better?"

Comments

ironic?

[4n0nym0u53 C0w4rd]

When I tried to access the story I got an error message:

Proxy Error
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request GET /site-stories/2001/1025.errorhandling.html.

Reason: Could not connect to remote machine: Connection refused

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Re:I think I've got it down

[tcc]

1.1

main( arguments ){
try{
--code goes here--
}catch( exception ){
printout "I'm sorry $username, I'm affraid I can't do that"
}}