Chapter 9. Run-time Exceptions

“When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I remember when I was writing my first program in an independently-compiled language (Fortran; before that I was just using interpreted BASIC). After much work, I got the program to compile without any errors. In glee, I turned to a co-worker and said, “All right! I'm done now!” A grin came over his face, and he said, “I doubt it.” What awaited me at ...

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