Why is exception handling bad?

Question

Google\'s Go language has no exceptions as a design choice, and Linus of Linux fame has called exceptions crap. Why?

Answer 1

I havent read all of the other answers, so this ma yhave already been mentioned, but one criticism is that they cause programs to break in long chains, making it difficult to track down errors when debugging the code. For example, if Foo() calls Bar() which calls Wah() which calls ToString() then accidentily pushing the wrong data into ToString() ends up looking like an error in Foo(), an almost completely unrelated function.