Why exceptions for error handling is so important

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 11 January 2015 at 10:48, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> Over the last few days, I have been getting weird errors from various
> programs I run on Windows 7. Programs would just fail, or produce corrupt
> output (I'm looking at you, Windows Moviemaker).
>
> I have a 128Gb SSD drive for my system drive, for speed, and a 4T secondary
> spinning drive for storage. I knew I was getting nearly out of space on the
> SSD drive, and had a 256Gb SSD drive ready to swap in.
>
> To migrate the system to the new disk, the idea was to use Windows
> Backup/Restore of the image. Unfortunately, Windows Backup would get a ways
> through the process, then fail with no message beyond an error code.
> Googling the error code produced a vast number of results, and various
> schemes for fixing it, some official, some not. None of them were
> applicable. Many involved loading new drivers, editting the system registry,
> and all sort of unappealing "solutions".
>

Up to this point, I you reminded me of a talk by Joe Armstrong
(inventor of Erlang)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4