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by mikeschinkel 2528 days ago
> That's why exceptions work so well in most languages

But there are many people including some well-known and highly-respect people who believe that exception handling in fact does not actually work well:

- https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/13/13/ - https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2004/09/10/st... - https://www.atlassian.com/blog/archives/exceptions_are_bad - https://stackoverflow.com/a/1736320/102699 - http://xahlee.info/comp/why_i_hate_exceptions.html - http://www.lighterra.com/papers/exceptionsharmful/

#justsaying