> I don't really know what to say. It's not that you're wrong or couldn't' be right, it's that there's a whole ecosystem of language and tooling, culture of idi

> I don't really know what to say. It's not that you're wrong or couldn't' be right, it's that there's a whole ecosystem of language and tooling, culture of idiomatic program design and human psychology at play. It seems you wanted to say that there are frameworks out there that use exception handling to handle flow control. There are indeed. There's also plenty of fundamentally broken code around. That is not a justification to perpetuate mistakes. It's like someone complaining that sticking fingers in power outlets hurts because of the jolt. Well, then don't?