First off, I'm hardly a "kid". Secondly, You've described the anti-me. I have the least tolerance for broken code as anyone in my organization, and "hammering out code" is the antithesis of everythign I stand for. I'm a design nut.

You used the tired "a bad programmer can screw up in every language" argument. Yes, very true... however the problem today is that new programming constructs (massive OO applications, EJB, SOAP) make it appealing and politically correct to do some very unmaintainable things. I've seen it happen. What's more, these practices are often encouraged without guarding the dangerous of over-indulgance. Some of these constructs allow interoperability between average level programmers in an organization (as is the case with massive OO), but there is a price. Sprawl. Chaos. Anti-Design in the long term. Perhaps not so in Perl as many of the Enterprise Class applications. "Enterprise Class" is usually implies "Massive OO construct with tons of exception handling", but these are also the inefficient error-prone beasts that consume 500MB of RAM. Attention to detail is lost when error checking is broad-based, and design is lost due to sprawl enabled by the lack of fine grained control and understanding.

I am not merely ranting on try/catch, but the concept of fine-grained versus coarse-grained error recovery. Your rebuttal to mine had some very excellent points, but the "kid" part wasn't one of them. Let's not judge based on percieved experience. Nixon* had plenty of experience. * = previous read "Nikon". That would have been funny.

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