Why exceptions for error handling is so important

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

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 like Python for lots of things, but it is crap for some, hence
> Java/Groovy/Scala/Kotlin/Ceylon/Clojure for JVM-based work and
> C++/D/Rust/Go/Chapel for native-based work.
>
> PyD needs more support from the D community!

I've just seen that PyD has moved to github[1] and has had a 
considerable cleanup of documentation. Hooray :)   Now if only we 
had shared library support on OS X then I could actually use 
it....

[1] https://github.com/ariovistus/pyd