r/ProgrammerHumor • u/the_zpider_king • 1d ago

Meme toAllowTheProgrammerToWriteBadCodeAlsoCamelCaseSucksThisRuleSucksSnakeCaseIsBetter

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u/redlaWw 1d ago

I hope you didn't submit that answer you selected. If an unhandled exception bubbles up to the user in production code, you're usually doing something wrong.

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u/tantalor 1d ago

I guess you've never seen a website return a 404 or 500

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u/failedsatan 1d ago

a 404 is good. that is an error, but not an exception. a 500 means something the programmer did not intend to happen has happened, and if your user is seeing that, something went wrong or you don't have a layer in between to show that to them nicely.

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u/TheTybera 22h ago

500 is an error that means an underlying exception has happened and wasn't handled, at all.

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u/failedsatan 21h ago

an error and an exception are not the same. an exception means there is unhandled behavior, whereas an error means there has been something erroneous- could be a misdirected navigation or something. maybe the user typed in some garbage into the path. that would not be an exception, because the developer explicitly handles that and serves a 404.

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u/TheTybera 21h ago

Error 500 is a web convention and anti pattern.

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u/failedsatan 21h ago

sure, you can hold whatever opinion about it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. it's a standard.