He seems to be throwing the baby out with the bath water here a bit. Exceptions are a failure and a bit of a mine field in C++; I have no arguments there but yo

He seems to be throwing the baby out with the bath water here a bit. Exceptions are a failure and a bit of a mine field in C++; I have no arguments there but you also don't need to use them. The list example is a bit contrived too. A simple templated class for the list node could give both encapsulation and the exact same speed and allocation characteristics as the C code.