Error Codes vs. Exceptions

An Enteraining read about Exceptions vs Error Codes in applications programming, some bad language, plenty of analogies [don't know if that if the correct spelling :)] but a good read!

"Very little software really gets error handling right. Even many critical, backend server systems tend to break under heavy loads. And the vast majority of end-user applications handle errors gracefully only for the most well understood, commonly encountered conditions, but very poorly for most other conditions."

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