There is something to be said for not just halting on an error in production systems. Its the same reason assertions are usually turned off on production builds.
Yes ideally the programmers should have handled the exception, but once your in production and the system is running, should you really just halt the whole program due to an exception the prograera didn't foresee?
Yes ideally the programmers should have handled the exception, but once your in production and the system is running, should you really just halt the whole program due to an exception the prograera didn't foresee?