Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Coding by exception

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Coding by exception
Looks to be a newly coined phrase. 8 Google hits: 3 are archives of a Usenet article, 3 are mirrors of a Sun Microsystems article. I would think that a common coding practice would have significantly more hits. --Xcali 04:31, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. Looks like a reasonable article about an anti-pattern that really exists.   &mdash; J I P | Talk 06:27, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. Try also: "programming by exception" (>100 Google hits).  There may be a better term for this, I can't recall at the moment. --Tabor 07:16, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * When you add in "code by exception" and "program by exception", you get a few hundred more ... --Tabor 07:18, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to "Programming by exception". - Sikon 08:00, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Has some notability. JamesBurns 08:02, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into software engineering. That article is pretty comprehensive but doesn't seem to mention this explicitly. I'm not familiar with the title of this article (and I know my software engineering) so it could well be a neologism, or something used in some lecture notes in a Uni somewhere, either of which would qualify it for mergetion. Regrettably, this is the way that much software is written, so this material should definitely be in the 'pedia somewhere.-Splash 12:48, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into software engineering and redirect. --W(t) 13:29, 2005 Jun 16 (UTC)
 * Keep. We've got articles on many other software anti-patterns.  In any case, software engineering is not the place to merge it. --Carnildo 20:10, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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