That article is extremely outdated and by today standards quite ill-informed. Many of its arguments could be equally made for error codes. Try some of these in

That article is extremely outdated and by today standards quite ill-informed. Many of its arguments could be equally made for error codes. Try some of these instead: http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/C-and-Beyond-2012-Andrei-Alexandrescu-Systematic-Error-Handling-in-C www.boost.org/community/exception_safety.html https://github.com/Quiark/CppExceptDetails http://www.boost.org/community/error_handling.html