Great idea, I completely agree. Error-handling code is pretty much impossible to eliminate since often the compiler can't possibly know what you want to do when

Great idea, I completely agree. Error-handling code is pretty much impossible to eliminate since often the compiler can't possibly know what you want to do when theres a certain error. I think the solution is to use a RoR kind of philosophy, "convention over configuration". Not exactly that, but basically sane defaults. Maybe this would get better if/when compilers get extremely intelligent.