Don't get me started on Java and checked exceptions. If you don't have checked exceptions, you should not have a million try/catch blocks. In fact, just the opposite. Since you only care about errors when you can retry (or ignore) you should only have a small number of try/catch blocks. Ideally one or none.

My best example of this is a UI application that I built that had a single try/catch block around the event loop. It just displayed the error message to the user and returned to the event loop. If they tried to save a file to a network and failed, they got the message, and could just hit save again for somewhere else. No other code needed.