Better Than Exceptions

Somehow I feel that this must also be an answer to the original question of "what is wrong with exceptions" (in C++). That they are sufficiently non-obvious to use that almost twenty years after they were first introduced electrons are still being spend explaining how to use them safely, and people still feel the need to debate on lwn.net whether or not they are a good thing. I can't put it down entirely to people being stuck in the past.