Readify does apparently. We have a technical mailing list internally that most of the technical folk in the company are hooked up to. Chris Hewitt reflected on the fact that he usually tells people to throw exceptions when something exceptional happens – but that this advice didn’t necessarily jive with the advice from Microsoft.
The fact that I now have e-mails in my Inbox from people like Greg Low, Clarke Scott, Scott Baldwin, Rob Sanders, Rocky Heckman, Luke Drumm, Paul Glavich and Darren Neimke on the subject is probably some indication of passion generated by this seemingly simple subject.
Of course, nothing in software development is ever that simple and when you have the likes of Raymond Chen and Joel Spolsky weighing in on one side of the argument and the .NET Framework as a body of code serving as evidence for the other you can bet that this is something that we are going to be debating for a long time to come.