Concepts of Programming Languages (11th Edition)
Concepts of Programming Languages (11th Edition)
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780133943023
Author: Robert W. Sebesta
Publisher: PEARSON
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Exception handling:

The ability of a program to intercept unusual conditions at the runtime, take corrective measures and then continue without crashing is called Exception Handling.

  • Languages like Ada, C++, and JAVA have good support for exception handling.
  • This facility is practically non-existent in many widely used languages like C, and FORTRAN...

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