try/except/finally

[Skip Montanaro]

> Here is Dijkstra:
> http://www.u.arizona.edu/~rubinson/copyright_violations/Go_To_Considered_Harmful.html
...
> And here is Hoare...

> | Ada has a plethora of features and notational conventions, many of them
> | unnecessary and some of them, like exception handling, even
> | dangerous.  Do not allow this language in its present state to be
> | used in applications where reliability is critical.

Would be interesting to get their collective take on C++...

Are there any good parts? It appears the book was cancelled (note the
remarks):

https://www.matthewsbooks.com/productdetail.aspx?productid=4493SAT1969&returnurl=%2Fforthcomingtitles.aspx%3Fsort%3D0%26images%3D1%26print%3Dtrue

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