Low level programmers dislike exceptions because cost, high level (and some low level) programmers dislike exceptions because they make any reasoning about beha

Low level programmers dislike exceptions because cost, high level (and some low level) programmers dislike exceptions because they make any reasoning about behaviour, resource leaking, etc impossible without looking at the full code, and even then the analysis is exponentially more difficult. This all applies regardless of the C++ standard, of course.