That's pretty much my point. By avoiding to use some tools completely one does not necessarily increase the stability of software. I just hope that such kind o

That's pretty much my point. By avoiding to use some tools completely one does not necessarily increase the stability of software. I just hope that such kind of rules allow well documented/argumented exceptions. But I guess even in safety-critical environments you will have to handle exceptions (small, like in "we did something different than what was agreed on" not as in "throw BufferOverflowException") anyway. No system is perfect.