Why exceptions for error handling is so important

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On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 10:51:33 UTC, Russel Winder via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> On Mon, 2015-01-12 at 13:04 -0800, Walter Bright via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On 1/12/2015 11:27 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> > Unless you are writing Python code.
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>> Nobody would be in this forum if we preferred Python :-)
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> Why does one have to "prefer" a language to the exclusion of all
> others (unless one is the author of a language ;-)

I have found that Python quite nicely can replace perl, php, 
bash, awk and sed... What's not to like about this swiss army 
knife that can get rid of all that junk?

> I like Python for lots of things, but it is crap for some, hence
> Java/Groovy/Scala/Kotlin/Ceylon/Clojure for JVM-based work and

I have almost no experience with these, why so many? What do they 
bring to the table versus one another?

> PyD needs more support from the D community!

I'd consider using Python with D if the memory model was 
integrated. Not a bad idea, actually, but would take some real 
work.