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

There's one advantage of not handling any exceptions at all. If there's a problem, you'd rather have a crash and the user complain, instead of having the program continue in an indeterminate state.

For example, if you're writing a real time trading system, and there's an unexpected error, you're better off letting it crash. Otherwise, your program might keep going and make stupid trades. The users will complain right away "WTF?", but at least you don't lose millions of dollars.