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by VMG 4695 days ago
That's what http://www.rosettacode.org is for.

I agree that stackoverflow.com sometimes is a little too trigger-happy when it comes to closing questions, but we really don't need a community-wiki top answer with 1845 upvotes that is basically a rosetta code page, spawing dozens of copy-cat questions with slight variations on the theme.