"The trouble is that every time you call a method that throws an exception, you create an immediate crisis: you break the build. Rather than conciously planning an error handling strategy, programmers do something, anything, to make the compiler shut up."

Now, granting that people like that are even paid to write code, do you think they're allowed to work on systems that ship widgets or cause money to change hands?

Frankly, we're having an absurd discussion because the assumption introduced by the original article is absurd. Nobody programs that way, or rather the few people who program that way can't be made productive through any means short of torture.