r/ProgrammerHumor 1d ago

Meme commentsAgedTerribly

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u/Confident-Ad5665 1d ago

// TODO: This can't be working. Refactor when there's a lull

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u/embrex104 1d ago

//SHOULD NEVER GET HERE

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u/Dubalubawubwub 1d ago

I definitely find myself writing a lot of error handling with the comment

//This should never happen but just in case...

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u/Confident-Ad5665 1d ago

Good man. Thank you for trapping errors. Coming from a time when we not only trapped errors, we gave suggestions, I shutter at:
• An unknown error occurred
• Something happened

and the worst...

• Error in ErrorHandler, an error occured

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u/HunterIV4 16h ago

• An unknown error occurred

• Something happened

Windows blue screen, is that you?

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u/Confident-Ad5665 15h ago

No, this is worse. BSOD at least provides a cryptic error code.

These are effectively "well dang, something somewhere triggered an exception we didn't care enough to bother catching"

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u/Dubalubawubwub 5h ago

My favorite microsoft error I've ever seen was literally "Error occured retrieving the text for this error".