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

If you can't handle the problem adequately--and if it's anything other than rejecting bad input in some form (this includes something you tried to read from the disk or web) you probably can't--then you should die. Unless you're 100% certain you can continue safely, don't.

However, I wouldn't simply let an exception go. Catch it and gather as much information as you can. If your program manipulates a document of some kind save it UNDER A NEW NAME--it might be corrupt, you don't want to overwrite the original.