[daptaq]

I'd say a language is bad at error handling if it doesn't let you check if a procedure failed or not. What C does it that it compiles even if you ignore this, which is a different issue. Java, Rust, etc. wouldn't compile if you totally ignored it, but you that doesn't mean you have to do proper error handling, beyond satisfying the compiler/type system.

[ptx]

Are there any languages that are bad at error handling then, according to that definition? That don't let you return values, set global flags, mutate arguments or in any other way communicate back from a procedure?

[samus]

It mostly depends on API design I guess, but missing language features can certainly more complicated than necessary. I guess the GhostScript authors felt error handling in PostScript to be difficult since it is a concatenative programming language (related to functional programming languages) with a dynamic type system, even though it has error handling facilities.