> Exceptions are clearly superior to error codes in most cases.
I disagree with this, on a very strong and deep sense. When you program, there are no exceptional cases. All possible behaviors should be treated on equal footing, using the control structures of your language. When you try to open a file, either you can or you cannot, and none of these two cases is exceptional in any way.
I would rather say that a programming language that supports exceptions is broken by design. If the language even forces you to use the exceptions, then it leads inevitably to spaghetti code.
I disagree with this, on a very strong and deep sense. When you program, there are no exceptional cases. All possible behaviors should be treated on equal footing, using the control structures of your language. When you try to open a file, either you can or you cannot, and none of these two cases is exceptional in any way.
I would rather say that a programming language that supports exceptions is broken by design. If the language even forces you to use the exceptions, then it leads inevitably to spaghetti code.