AID Anthropologist Takes Exception to Comments on Development Programs in Nepal

NGOs, Foreign Aid, and Development in Nepal

The number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in Nepal has grown significantly since the 1990s due to a range of factors. A total of 39,759 NGOs and 189 international non-governmental organizations were registered in Nepal between 1977 and 2014 in various sectors, including health, agriculture, poverty alleviation, and good governance. Despite thousands of NGOs and significant amo...

An exploratory study on exception handling bugs in Java programs

Most mainstream programming languages provide constructs to throw and to handle exceptions. However, several studies argue that exception handling code is usually of poor quality and that it is commonly neglected by developers. Moreover, it is said to be the least understood, documented, and tested part of the implementation of a system. Nevertheless, there are very few studies that analyze the...

Analyzing Exception Flow in JavaTM Programs?

Exception handling mechanisms provided by programming languages are intended to ease the di culty of developing robust software systems. Using these mechanisms, a software developer can describe the exceptional conditions a module might raise, and the response of the module to exceptional conditions that may occur as it is executing. Creating a robust system from such a localized view requires ...

Comments on "General Failure of Logic Programs"

t> The paper [1] purports to present a classification of the general failure sets of logic programs and a simple proof of the theorem on the soundness and completeness of the negation-as-failure rule. In this note we clarify some conflicting terminology between [1] and the papers [2, 3] to which it predominantly refers. Our main purpose, however, is to point out major errors, in particular, one...

Some Comments on the Coding of Programs