> Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.

> Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents.

In particular you seem to be responding to a strawman, since nowhere did I say C error handling was better than structured exceptions. The parent asked what was functionally different between laziness around checking error codes versus laziness around try/catching.