Scripting

Here is some source code in a blog entry about decoding "tar" archive headers, which IMO is a good example of how different languages have their own way of expressing logic (Ruby in this case).

Wouldn't it be nice if there were a place where the same problem, preferably a simple-to-understand-but-not-quite-trivial-one-to-solve, were coded in different languages and all collected somewhere?

Not as a shoot-out, but to help understand just what the different styles, formatting choices, standard libraries, and conventions are. Hey, let's call it a "sleep-in", to protest against language apartheid!

I'd really like this world to move on from "mono-lingual" language-centric communities ...