>>47And you never would wrap each line with a try catch block because it would be so verbose. It motivates you to deal with errors in a sloppy and unreliable way. Error codes make you ingrain error handling into the natural behavior of the function.
Please explain how wrapping every function call that could throw an exception in a try/catch block is worse and more likely to induce sloppiness than wrapping every function call that could return an error code in a switch block (or worse, if/elif/.../else).