How does it sacrifice reliability? Are try/catch blocks not also their own flavor of boilerplate? All error codes do is put the error handling you ought to be d

How does it sacrifice reliability? Are try/catch blocks not also their own flavor of boilerplate? All error codes do is put the error handling you ought to be doing in the first place near the area an error could occur. See also Raymond Chen's posts about good vs bad exception handling (H/t Russ Cox on G+): http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/04/22/118161.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/04/22/11816... http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/01/14/352949.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/01/14/35294...