Name: Sarah Groff Palermo on Exception Handling: Issues and a Proposed Notation
Start: 2019-02-19T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2019-02-19T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Two Sigma

We are excited to host Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo speaking on Exception Handling: Issues and a Proposed Notation from John B. Goodenough (https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~weimerw/2006-615/reading/goodenough-exceptions.pdf)

Talk:

Errors and debugging are the bane of a programmer’s life — and the source of many jokes, Twitter rants, and midnight breakdowns. As programming matures as a practice, we continue to add different ways to avoid and address errors, but how did we get here to begin with?

Exception Handling: Issues and a Proposed Notation from John B. Goodenough (1975) details the needs and goals of an exception handling system and then gets specific with suggestions of syntax, including remedies to known issues in the system.

In this talk, we will take a look at the development of one approach to errors, — throwing and handling exceptions — as it developed in PL/I. Some of these features have not made it all the way to common modern languages, so this is a chance to take a look at what we've lost to time.

Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo (sarahghp.com / @superSGP on Twitter) is an artist, programmer, and erstwhile data designer. Her work centers around methods to make computers and data more humane — more accessible, more flexible, more contextual. She has created data-obscured art sites, new computer languages, and hybrid nostalgia machines.

Her current focuses are livecode, digital abstraction, and discovering new ways to break things.

Sarah is an alumna of the School for Poetic Computation, Recurse Center, Brown University, and NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

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**Doors open at 6:30 pm**; the presentations will begin right around 7:00 pm; and, yes, there will be refreshments of all kinds and pizza.

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