Personally, as a coder AND as a user - I want the program to flat out fail. As a user, a system that aborts on error maybe a PITA to use, but I have confidence

Personally, as a coder AND as a user - I want the program to flat out fail. As a user, a system that aborts on error maybe a PITA to use, but I have confidence in the output it provides. As a programmer, I like that same confidence in output AND it requires me to address the failures in some way...