Why not use exceptions as regular flow of control?

Question

To avoid all standard-answers I could have Googled on, I will provide an example you all can attack at will.

C# and Java (and too many others) have with plenty of ty

Answer 1

One aesthetic reason:

A try always comes with a catch, whereas an if doesn't have to come with an else.

if (PerformCheckSucceeded())
   DoSomething();

With try/catch, it becomes much more verbose.

try
{
   PerformCheckSucceeded();
   DoSomething();
}
catch
{
}

That's 6 lines of code too many.