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8 ½ exceptions and message boxes

Get the message?

So when you say, “Not even
if you were the last man on
Earth,” what do you mean?

Sometimes things just go wrong. You just need to handle it.
There will always be things beyond your control. Networks will fail. Files will disappear.
Smart coders learn how to deal with those kinds of errors and make their programs
recover gracefully. The best software keeps the user informed about the bad things that
happen and what should be done to recover. By learning how to use exceptions and
message boxes, you can take your software to the next level of reliability and quality.

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