That's funny. I don't mind writing code. The code I like the best is the code I don't have to debug.
Re:Less is exponentially more
by eta_carinae on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @03:07AM
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> I don't mind writing code.
You should mind writing code that the compiler can write for you, which is exactly what you do when you don't have exceptions (you simulate bubbling up the error manually).
>That's funny. I don't mind writing code. The code I like the best is the code I don't have to debug.
The code you don't have to write, you also don't have to debug.
So you SHOULD mind writing code.
The assumption here being that if you do not have exceptions, one must write all the intermediate code. That exceptions are the only way of avoiding this.
While in Go this may be the case, it is not true in general. One could use an error monad to achieve the exact same thing, albeit in a much safer manner.
And the "understanding" argument applies to other things, such as using a compiled language instead of assembly or GC instead of manual memory allocation.