Throwing an exception is a side effect that makes your code non-deterministic, and you should avoid it at all costs! Functional programming gives us technics to deal with error conditions in a controlled, deterministic fashion. Marco Vermeulen teaches how to write functional code that handles errors without throwing a single exception.

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