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:::Thanks for the info. I'll have to take a closer look. [[User:STEMinfo|<span style="color: red;">STEM</span><span style="color: green;">info</span>]] ([[User talk:STEMinfo|talk]]) 17:44, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
::::{{ping|Buidhe paid}} I replaced the Implementation section, and as you pointed out, the Specifications section is unchanged. I've read up about the standard library, and I'm not seeing how it helps readers to remove the section. It's clearly an element of every programming language, which you can tell just by doing a simple phrase search with quotes for "standard library". I'm reluctant to remove it. Feel free to discuss further. I'm still reviewing your opening text and the tradeoffs section. [[User:STEMinfo|<span style="color: red;">STEM</span><span style="color: green;">info</span>]] ([[User talk:STEMinfo|talk]]) 20:49, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
:::::{{ping|Buidhe paid}} I'm not convinced that your version is enough of an improvement to remove the information about natural languages and the reasons for having diverse programming languages, unsourced or not. You also removed the segue to the specification and implementation sections, and accidentally introduced a typo that changes the meaning.
{{Textdiff|[[Edsger W. Dijkstra]] took the position that the use of a formal language is essential to prevent the introduction of meaningless constructs, and dismissed [[natural-language programming]] as "foolish".<ref>Dijkstra, Edsger W. [http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html On the foolishness of "natural language programming."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080120201526/http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html |date=20 January 2008 }} EWD667.</ref> [[Alan Perlis]] was similarly dismissive of the idea.<ref>{{cite web|last=Perlis|first=Alan|url=http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html|title=Epigrams on Programming|work=SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9|date=September 1982|pages=7–13|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990117034445/http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html|archive-date=17 January 1999}}</ref>|[[Edsger W. Dijkstra]] took the position that the use of a formal language is essential to prevent the introduction of meaningless constructs.<ref>Dijkstra, Edsger W. [http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html On the foolishness of "natural language programming."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080120201526/http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html |date=20 January 2008 }} EWD667.</ref> [[Alan Perlis]] was similarly dismissive of the idea.<ref>{{cite web|last=Perlis|first=Alan|url=http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html|title=Epigrams on Programming|work=SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 17, No. 9|date=September 1982|pages=7–13|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990117034445/http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html|archive-date=17 January 1999}}</ref> }}
:::::I'm going to leave this open but I think you can propose changes while also preserving more of the existing content. [[Special:Contributions/68.5.3.227|68.5.3.227]] ([[User talk:68.5.3.227|talk]]) 22:02, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
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