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Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> And hardware errors are also well worth reporting to the humans.

Sure. The main issue is the problem of throwing exceptions
from destructors or Finalize. Neither C++ nor Ada likes it
when you do that, so that blocks off the usual channel for
such reporting.