I have a gut feeling that there is some merit to the idea that exception handling isn't all that great. Just so much code out there does not really handle the exceptions, it just exit(1)s. C will teach you to check return values (usually easy enough: if (result==NULL) {fatalerror(1,"result not OK");}) . If you don't, the program will continue to run (derailed).
Most 'high-level' programmers will consider an abortion of execution just fine, while C programmers will put more thought into handling an error situation.
Few C programs will automatically abort with a core dump on the first occasion of 'record not found'.
