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> To claim that you can somehow inventory every possible problem in a computerized system and then provide a graceful exit from that or useful info is either ignorant or arrogant or both.

I don't think you read the book. I read the book in 2000/2001. The emphasis was on helping the user.

Not a single line in that entire book, IIRC, advocates silently failing. I have no idea how you came up with that interpretation, when almost every single example in that book highlights "silent failure" as something to avoid.



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