Re: Failure the Unix way...
Well one thing is true, on Unix you move those checks to the domain specific parts at the edges. So in so core of your program you don't have such checks.
However on Unix you also try to have simple formats. Formats that are simple enough they can be parsed with only very few lines of code. If you need more complex structures you try to use multiple files aranged in directories. Inside of a file you only have line based text separated with field separators. Inside the core, where nothing is problem oriented, you only deal with lines and fields.
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