1) Quite the contrary. And there is no "hope" - you either write code to recover or you throw an exception (and then there is a "hope" that some other code will

1) Quite the contrary. And there is no "hope" - you either write code to recover or you throw an exception (and then there is a "hope" that some other code will catch it), it's just different approaches. 2) Yes, it's not so difficult. Writing tests, for example, also takes time - it's not a reason to don't write tests.