That's a nice idea; But it is a misleading one. Even an app for your phone that communicates with a server is a distributed system. Even a programm performing

That's a nice idea; But it is a misleading one. Even an app for your phone that communicates with a server is a distributed system. Even a programm performing a simple read/write operation on the file_system_ is part of a distributed system. Handling exceptions is precisely a way to deal with the uncertainty of these two systems working together.