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Re:Don’t Use Try/Catch (2010) by alexRohde on Saturday December 28, 2013 @01:58PM (#6975817)
I cannot believe this got on the front page. Structured exception handling is crucial for atomicity and building robust systems.

Nothing about catch requires the program to continue executing as though no exception ever happened, many catches can be fatal but handle emergency cleanup.

Re:Don’t Use Try/Catch (2010) by angersock on Saturday December 28, 2013 @02:26PM (#6975993)
How do you feel about Erlang?