I think the distinction between errors (bugs) and exceptional situations made here[1] is important: if you have a problem because of some transient condition (a

I think the distinction between errors (bugs) and exceptional situations made here[1] is important: if you have a problem because of some transient condition (an exceptional situation like a network outage or a full filesystem) then it makes sense to try to recover somehow. If you hit an error (i.e. A programming error or a bug) all you can do is abort, since you can no longer trust that the program will do the right thing. [1]: http://joeduffyblog.com/2016/02/07/the-error-model/ http://joeduffyblog.com/2016/02/07/the-error-model/