[PRL] Joel on Software - Making Wrong Code Look Wrong

[Doug Orleans]

William D Clinger writes:
 > Doug wrote:
 > > The gist of his Rant Against Exceptions seems to be
 > > (translated to Scheme) that the expression "(begin (foo) (bar))"
 > > may not always result in "bar" being called.
 > 
 > If Doug is correct, then Joel's Rant Against Exceptions applies
 > to all languages that support both procedure calls and infinite
 > loops

Not to mention segmentation faults and bus errors!