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Exceptions are an inherently poor way of handling errors because they make bugs harder to spot on casual code inspection.

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

software quality Whether a program is any good and how anyone would know: tests, review, debt, and what a suite cannot cover.

What Colin Percival actually said

  1. Colin Percival FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer
    exceptions are an inherently poor way of handling errors because they make it easier to write bugs which won't be immediately obvious on casual code inspection

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