This reminds me of one of my favorite SO answer-rants that reads like an angry Dr. Seuss rhyme: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36627158 https://stackoverflow.com/a

This reminds me of one of my favorite SO answer-rants that reads like an angry Dr. Seuss rhyme: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36627158 https://stackoverflow.com/a/36627158 > Which of these are the "checked" exceptions? Throwables are checked exceptions, except if they're also Errors, which are unchecked exceptions, and then there's the Exceptions, which are also Throwables and are the main type of checked exception, except there's one exception to that too, which is that if they are also RuntimeExceptions, because that's the other kind of unchecked exception.