Are we getting better at designing programming languages?

[Kagamin]

On Tuesday, 23 July 2013 at 18:14:10 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> First of all, C does not have exceptions so every single thing 
> must be done as two lines:
>
>     err = do_something();
>     goto_finally_if_error(err);

Huh, never seen such pattern in C. I just return error code.