[Isolate-interest] checked vs. unchecked exceptions

[Alaric Snell-Pym]

Pete Soper wrote:

> Some day we'll get out of the habit of assuming common language runtime 
> systems explode without warning. Some day we'll trust the {Java,C#,*} 
> runtime environments like we trust lib{c,m} or their non-Unixen 
> equivalents now.

Indeed; the only reliability problems I've had with Java have come down 
to the underlying Unix system...

Right now, I'm battling with a Linux kernel that overcommits memory and 
has no option to turn it off, so rather than getting OutOfMemory being 
thrown, I get random processes being killed! Grrr.

 > I'll leave out a story about when I worked for IBM in
> a machine shop and encountered a master machinist who didn't know 
> whether I was from planet Earth or not (but he knew what good tools look 
> like!!)

I'd like to hear the story! :-)

> 
> -Pete
> 

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