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by kgeist 643 days ago
We had one case when a developer realized his algorithm had a severe reliability problem when he realized he had no idea how to handle one specific error returned by one of the called functions.

I remember us discussing that if it was written in PHP, we'd completely miss the problem (we were in the process of switching from PHP go Go), because with exceptions, it wouldn't be as obvious.