The Path to Zen

Your business is throwing it, mine catching it… or not.

I’ve been whining for quite a while to some friends and coworkers about how checked exceptions have ruined and will continue to ruin our codebase, because it leads those lesser disciplined developers to doing blindly either “throws Exception” or “catch(Exception)”. So naturally I found it very interesting reading Paul Watson’s blog on Checked Exceptions, and the articles collected there. Just wanted to echo to those.