[crucini]

While I understand the instinct, there is a flip side. A while back Lutz Prechelt posed the phonecode problem, inviting solutions in multiple languages. While he didn't specify error handling, the Perl solutions were on average better at error handling than the compiled language solutions.

[mk89]

I think you are referring to [0]. Thanks a lot for sharing this, it's quite interesting!

[0]: http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/inst/ag-se/teaching/V-EMPIR-2011...