This is not how to deal with exceptions:

Ned continues a discussion Joel started about exceptions in software. Fortunately for me I mostly ignore exceptions because I don’t really give a damn how well my software works - just that I get paid (and quick!). Its possible this is wrong. [Force moral quandry to bottom of mental stack (*grunt*)... aaaannnnddd... its gone. Much better.]

[Note: Normally I wouldn’t copy the entry here, but a number of readers reported that following the original link crashed their Mozilla browser. I also saw strange intermittent behavior on that page, where at some point, the text becomes a garbled mess. Perhaps there’s a server problem? Perhaps the author of the entry wrote the software?]