[wvenable]

I have a desktop app that has a single exception handler at the event loop. It's amazingly robust. That file you're trying to save is locked? Network location went away? Doesn't matter. It displays the error in a dialog box (so you know what went wrong) and returns the user to the app. Whatever operation they were doing, they can just try again. Any cleanup is performed automatically and the application, without really any effort, is always in a stable state.

That's how exceptions are supposed to work. The wack-a-mole attempt at ensuring you "handle" every case is wrong.

The problem, in my opinion, is that most programmers have been so brain damaged by Java that anyone exposed to that way of programming can't see how exceptions are supposed to work. Java not only makes you try/catch/declare everything but also makes you use exceptions for non-exceptional operations. A perfect storm.