> If embedded systems programmers wrote code the same way modern desktop applications developers did, we'd all be dead.

If Boeing made passenger jets the way Boeing made fighters, we'd all be dead, too, but try telling a fighter pilot that they should do their job from a 777. It's two very different contexts.

Besides, some errors can't be recovered from. What do you do when your error logging code reports a failure? Keep trying to log the same error, or do you begin trying to log the error that you can't log errors anymore?