Meditating on Checked Exceptions

There was a once Truth-Seeker, who after many years of struggle still has not found the true-way in programming. He has mastered MVC, Visitor pattern, and hundreds of patterns but he mind was still in darkness.

His Master, seeing him in despair, instructed him to meditate on how to write good software using Checked Exceptions. An hour later, when the Master noticed the student was in deep concentration, quietly took off His slippers and smacked the student on the head as hard as He could.

The student’s eyes opened. He had achieved immeditate enlightenment.

Now go read this.