[pluma]

Presumably because a rEaL pRoGrAmMiNg LaNgUaGe would have used different exception types to provide the same levels of distinction which still results in basically the same if/else-if/else (or try/catch/catch) structure but "more civilised".

Or because he thinks web apps don't care about whether the server couldn't be reached and whether the server rejected a request. Your guess is as good as mine.

[vonseel]

That makes a lot more sense than my assumption (based on his next paragraph) that he just didn’t like chained ‘if’ statements. His mention of “nested ifs” threw me off tremendously, considering that code block doesn’t contain any nested ifs (chained if/else is not the same as nested ifs).