So I've just learned that C has no exceptions

Instead, they use some weird setjmp/longjmp shit.
Holy fuck, and some trolls here dare say that "C is a good language".

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I would argue that conditionals that nest more than 3 or 4 levels deep are not very readable, especially when the nesting is done entirely to accommodate error cases that must break out of the whole structure anyway. Writing code that way also complicates maintenance because the error path becomes an implicit property of the conditional structure. The first time someone else needs to add a new branch the whole thing will come tumbling down.