Editing Exception handling (section)

== History ==
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The first hardware exception handling was found in the [[UNIVAC I]] from 1951. 
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Software exception handling developed in the 1960s and 1970s. Exception handling was subsequently widely adopted by many programming languages from the 1980s onward.