Why are empty catch blocks a bad idea? [closed]

Answer 1

I wouldn't stretch things as far as to say that who uses empty catch blocks is a bad programmer and doesn't know what he is doing...

I use empty catch blocks if necessary. Sometimes programmer of library I'm consuming doesn't know what he is doing and throws exceptions even in situations when nobody needs it.

For example, consider some http server library, I couldn't care less if server throws exception because client has disconnected and index.html couldn't be sent.