Is “Dying is Awesome” preferred?

Question

Recently I attended Jeffrey Richter\'s training courses about .NET. He mentions one strategy of coding \"Dying is awesome\". That is, don\'t write \"catch (Exception ex)\" e

Answer 1

That all depends on how you treat exceptions. If you only throw exceptions when something truly exceptional has happened (and not when a database query return no results, or is ill-formed) then you really shouldn't need to ever catch exceptions. Because your program shouldn't be able to recover, anything you can recover from is not an exception, but an error.