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or C developers have considered things that should not happen more than the next nearest language.

• notacoward 11y ago
  Totally THIS. Many C coding standards require that every return value be checked, every "switch" statement have a default case, etc. Programmers comply, but sometimes the conditions they're checking truly are impossible, so you end up with messages like these. By contrast, coding standards for languages with exceptions typically do not require such constant checking in the code. An uncaught exception is the moral equivalent of "this should never happen" but doesn't show up in a search like this. Without even getting into the issue of whether C programmers are really more diligent than Java or Python programmers (for example) there's a measurement problem to contend with here.