I think these responses show I failed to articulate my point well at all. I appreciate them but they don’t seem to attack the question I asked which is if defen

I think these responses show I failed to articulate my point well at all. I appreciate them but they don’t seem to attack the question I asked which is if defensive programming as a practice (retries just being a extreme example) is more natural when you are talking “over the wire” for some innate reason, even tho other forms of defensiveness may be equally relevant and useful in non-networked programming.