D as a betterC a game changer ?

[Walter Bright]

On 12/26/2017 12:40 AM, Dan Partelly wrote:
> This is self evident. However, this was not the point of my post. My point was 
> to refute your statement that no C programmer would care about exceptions. If 
> what you say is true, how comes SEH was used so intensively on Windows by C 
> programmers , and how come many programmers homebreaw their own using 
> setjmp/longjmp to use it?

Standard C has always had setjmp/longjmp, so "exceptions" are part of the language.

SEH is used on Windows because Microsoft designed the Windows API to pretty much 
force people to use it. Its absence on every other OS suggests it is hardly that 
desirable.