“One of the paradoxes of defensive programming is that during development, you’d like an error to be noticeable – you’d rather have it be obnoxious than risk overlooking it. But during production, you’d rather have the error be as unobtrusive as possible, to have the program recover or fail gracefully.”

“One of the paradoxes of defensive programming is that during development, you’d like an error to be noticeable – you’d rather have it be obnoxious than risk overlooking it. But during production, you’d rather have the error be as unobtrusive as possible, to have the program recover or fail gracefully.”

— Steve McConnell