Well, it's the same example :) The point of the paper is that even when people are forced to handle errors, they punt. BTW, that it's "almost universally hated

Well, it's the same example :) The point of the paper is that even when people are forced to handle errors, they punt. BTW, that it's "almost universally hated" is more myth than reality. When there are polls at conferences, most developers actually say they like it a lot. The complaints are mostly not about the feature, but the choice of which exceptions thrown by methods in the standard library are marked as checked and which are not.