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:[[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]], would it make sense to include the zero-solution languages? That way we can compare with solutions from other languages and compare where the differences are. For example my current Awk solution is only giving 484 languages with > 0 solutions, but 574 total (the difference being the 0 solution languages). I'd like to see what your zero-solution languages are to help debug the problem. -- [[User:3havj7t3nps8z8wij3g9|3havj7t3nps8z8wij3g9]] ([[User talk:3havj7t3nps8z8wij3g9|talk]]) 19:25, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
::: The REXX language has no API for looking at web pages, so it wouldn't be feasible on report on zero-entry computer language entries. I had only written/entered a REXX solution because, at the time, none of the entries that I tried worked (I tried just a few of the entries that I had compilers for), or reported incorrect rankings, or didn't report on some of the top entries, or reported on categories that weren't computer programming languages. That left me looking at (various) entry's results (output), none of which displayed enough depth to see where the REXX computer language was ranked (among other languages). So I wrote a REXX program to display the ranking of ''all'' the computer program languages, along with correctly showing tied entries. Since the REXX entry was the only entry to show ''all'' the languages, I keep it updated (about) every month or so (on a separate web page). -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 02:31, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
:: (See my comments at the copied/quoted part of a talk page near the bottom of this talk secion.) The REXX programming language entry shows the number of members (as per the Rosetta Code task), not the number of solutions.
Hello again. I looked into this further and it appears the problem may be with the REXX code? For example [[:Category:80386 Assembly]] has 1 page, but REXX is reporting 4 pages. Probably the most reliable solution is to use the API to report how many pages are available. This shows the first 500 languages with corresponding page totals:
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