[tome]

> saying one is "an emulation" of the other is just stupid.

I did say that indeed. Am I to conclude doing so was stupid? If so I would find that very rude.

(For what it's worth I was trying to understand what astrange meant by "it has exceptions which are a bad language feature, and typed throws which are a worse one" and offering that characterization as a way of trying to tease out exactly what he/she meant. Your response contains many interesting points and I would otherwise be interested in discussing with you further, but I'm not too inclined to now that you have suggested you might think I'm stupid.)