[notacoward]

> it's again the matter of the knife and how you use it.

The author makes this point repeatedly: exceptions would be great if all programmers were above average, but (of course) they're not. In practice the knife is juggled and thrown (heh) and generally mishandled so much that the floor is covered in blood. This gets us into pg's whole "blub" design-for-geniuses vs. design-for-idiots discussion, with is basically dueling strawmen, so I'll bow out there.