My brother the master coder

My younger brother Kevin is not only a great guy with a great sense of humor, but he’s a valued member of the Benchside team. Recently, my new Benchside teammate (and professional coder) Anuraag suggested that I start using the Python programming language’s formal exception handling system to handle errors gracefully rather than rely on Kevin/my cobbled together system of error handling which we pieced together for the purpose of getting stuff done rather than getting stuff done well. Anuraag’s suggestion was not a trivial change, although, admittedly, its something we should do as our code gets longer and more complicated, and when I raised the idea with Kevin, this is how he replied:

Kevin:  man i hate exceptions

Me:  aren’t u supposed to be the legit pro programmer?

Me:  shouldn’t u have figured all this out before?

Kevin: my code doesnt make mistakes

Me: LOL

Kevin: thats why i dont need them

Sadly, while Kevin might not mistakes, I almost certainly do .