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Runtime Error or Exception

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Modern languages divide failures by category — a runtime error too serious for software to handle; an exception recoverable through the language's handling support — and either is "thrown."

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A records system distinguishes the crash it cannot survive from the missing entry it can.

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The division decides what code should even attempt.