[steveklabnik]

That's what I am trying to figure out. I have a hunch that it may be correlated with language background.

That's usually why I'm always asking for specifics when people make general complaints, I'm trying to dig into the _why_. "Error messages are bad" isn't actionable; "error messages are bad because" often is. This thread was already getting into specifics before I woke up, though :)