What Colin Percival thinks about software quality

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FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.

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11 Apr 2026

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

Their wordsexceptions 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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