I have to disagree. Historically, conditions and restarts came from Multics and PL/I. There is also similar thing in IBM z/OS, descendant of MVS (ESTAE recovery

I have to disagree. Historically, conditions and restarts came from Multics and PL/I. There is also similar thing in IBM z/OS, descendant of MVS (ESTAE recovery routines). When ESTAE is invoked, you can decide where you want to recover (since it's assembler you may unwind stack if you have one), or you can "percolate", which means to pass processing on the next error handler. Unix signals is probably another descendant. So in the 1960s, recovery by error handler (the option 2) was very common thing. It only got a bit forgotten later due to them not being properly supported in C, so it didn't get into C++ and Java due to cultural disconnect.