[John]

After contemplating the idea of exceptions for several days, I've concluded (at least for my own software development purposes) it is a bad idea to depend on exceptions. I feel it is important to note, exceptions should not take the place of bounds checking (DivideByZeroException) and data validation (InvalidCaseException). In programming, its generally a good idea to think in the abstract, but an exception should be though of literally: "an exception to all rules" - something the programmer cannot guard against such as an OutOfMemoryException. None-the-less, I enjoyed the read.