That's one of the arguments I used. We used C# and he actually did some noddy perf tests the conclusion of which where: It's slower but only adds 0.01 s as com

That's one of the arguments I used. We used C# and he actually did some noddy perf tests the conclusion of which where: It's slower but only adds 0.01 s as compared to the a version not using exceptions. This was about 3 orders of magnitude slower (probably more under load would be my guess) +1 for all the extra work to prove to himself that he had taken the right approach. -10 For refusing to listen, ignoring data and cherry picking articles on C about exception handling (Of course they're not going to use exceptions, they don't exist)