Rant after trying Rust a bit

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/25/2015 11:40 AM, Tobias Müller wrote:
> I'm not convinced at all that checked exceptions (as implemented in Java,
> not C++) don't work.
>
> My suspicion is that the usual Java code monkey is just too sloppy to care
> and thus sees it more as a nuisance rather than the help that it is.

Unfortunately, Bruce Eckel's seminal article on it 
http://www.mindview.net/Etc/Discussions/CheckedExceptions has disappeared. Eckel 
is not a Java code monkey, he wrote the book Thinking In Java
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131002872/