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Talk:COBOL#Section_"Influences_on_other_languages". Apokrif (talk) 23:22, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What about Python? Perl influence on Python, I'm having trouble to see this. Apart from the infobox Python is mentioned only two times in the entire article. Surprising enough, but certainly not due to influence, at least not in that direction. Perl came out in 87, Python 91, did Guido even know about it by the time? And influenced what? Python is about as different as it gets, and if it's about regexes then Perl "influenced" just about anything, only problem is it didn't exactly invent those either. It is less easy to argue that Python rather influenced Perl 5: Larry Wall pretty much took his inspiration for the OO extension from there. Not a secret and quite easy to cite. If anything, Python is listed in precisely the wrong row. -92.76.164.116 (talk) 04:05, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Result: Delist Sourcing and prose issues still remain Aircorn (talk) 09:50, 17 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It has 44 citation needed templates. This does not meet the WP:GA requirements. There might be more issues, but this alone is enough to delist it. PhotographyEdits (talk) 20:14, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment It looks like one user added 50 citation needed templates in 3 minutes on December 16th, 2020, taking the count from 4 to 54. That is a serious bit of tag bombing and 50 in 3 minutes does not suggest a lot of thought was put into these tags. Yet some of these tags are warranted, so a review is reasonable. --((u|Mark viking)) {Talk} 11:10, 29 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment The prose needs some work too. Pinging Feezo who got it to GA status. Aircorn (talk) 23:25, 10 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The article references https://www.wired.com/2007/12/dec-18-1987-perl-simplifies-the-labyrinth-that-is-programming-language/ but the Wired article says (Source: Wikipedia). This might warrant source removal/ensuring accuracy of any circularly cited facts. Bcjordan (talk) 01:41, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]