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Why throwing an exception should be the exception
Alex writes about the impact of throwing an exception on performance and that it may not be as bad as one may assume. In the comments, people write that using exceptions for flow control is not the Right Thing to do.
Here’s my #1 reason why throwing an exception for flow control is definitely not a good idea: Debugging. When I’m debugging and I’ve set the debugger to “break on CLR exceptions” (and no, I don’t want to get more specific when I switch that option on and off dozens of times per day), I don’t want code execution to halt over and over again until I get to the actual problem.
It’s bad enough if some exceptions in non-exceptional situations cannot be avoided — I don’t need to introduce them in my own code.
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Sound Forge 8.0 Scripting
One of my other hobbies besides developing software is audio editing. Working with Sound Forge for a couple of years now, I just upgraded to Sound Forge 8.0. Scripting is one of the new features and while it has a certain “version 1.0” feeling to it, it’s nice to see the preferred choice of “scripting language”:
