[lelanthran]

> And so additional arguments against exceptions are put forth, including performance issues (which are real) and this idea of paranoia being better than language tooling (which is rather suspect imo).

I feel you are mischaracterising my position, which was to have graduating students work in C for a non-trivial amount of time before they moved on to a new language.

The argument that paranoia is better than language tooling is entirely absent from my arguments.