Former good articlePerl was one of the Engineering and technology good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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DateProcessResult
December 14, 2005Good article nomineeListed
March 10, 2009Good article reassessmentDelisted
March 6, 2011Good article nomineeListed
June 15, 2021Good article reassessmentDelisted
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Current status: Delisted good article

Influence of COBOL on Perl?

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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

GA Reassessment

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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

Article cites wikipage, wikipage cites article

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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