Yup, your apt-get example is a great one. It's very frustrating that the ability to do stuff like this completely died with common lisp/smalltalk . I don't see

Yup, your apt-get example is a great one. It's very frustrating that the ability to do stuff like this completely died with common lisp/smalltalk . I don't see the appeal of exceptions at all if you don't have restarts (I'd rather have Either).