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by kllrnohj 427 days ago
> Exceptions (try/catch) became widespread much later

Exceptions, complete with try-catch-finally, were developed in the 60s & 70s, and languages such as Lisp and COBOL both adopted them.

So I'm not sure what you're calling "much later" as they fully predate C89, which is about as far back as most people consider when talking about programming languages.