Why exceptions for error handling is so important

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 12:14:07 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 10:51:33 UTC, Russel Winder via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Nobody would be in this forum if we preferred Python :-)
>>
>> 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?
>

As long as it is only used for scripting nothing.

But when people remember to use it for writing applications, then 
it is just plain slow and I don't see PyPy fixing that.

There is a reason why Go is getting Ruby and Python developers.

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Paulo