Bad books samples

Today I read a blog entry How Programming Books Promote Code Smells.

This is true: many books contain examples of bad code.

One of my favorite examples is the main method with try/catch like this one.

public static void main(String args[]) {
  try{
    FileInputStream fstream = ...
  }catch (Exception e){//Catch exception if any
    System.err.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());
  }
}

This try/catch is absolutely NOT NEEDED! If you skip them, the JVM does exactly the same work. the well-known "Throw early catch late" principle says that you shoudn't catch exception until you know what to do with it (except the trivial actions that the system does by default).