[lacampbell]

Sure, it may lead to that kind of code if you have mediocre programmers who don't care about robustness - absolutely. But in C# it's much harder to keep track of all the exceptions that might be thrown.

Now, if a programming language has error aware return types - using algebraic data types or multiple dispatch - that's a better solution than both. But in the absence of that, give me checked exceptions over unchecked ones any day.