Exceptions are shit

http://www.lighterra.com/papers/exceptionsharmful/

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Sure, if you ignore how exceptions and error codes are actually used in practice, that's true.
Fact is, people often ignore error codes because they can and usually catch and handle exceptions because they have to.

This isn't the goto argument, where both theoretical purity and actual practice said it needed to go; actual practice bears out exceptions are a good thing (compared to the available alternatives), and only theoretical purity is in conflict. That matters for research languages like Haskell, but it's completely irrelevant for languages that people actually use.