The first language I used to build something more than just school exercises was VisualBasic.Net. There are some good things and bad things in it, but I don't want to discuss that today. I switched to C# after that and Java and Python after it.
This is to say that basically up until three years ago I knew one and only one way to handle errors which is expressed in the following pseudocode:
try:
# dostuff
except: # or catch