I think jesuashok would have been fine if he'd simply troubled himself to say:

This node inspired by C Program to propose a girl.

Or even merely noting:

Translated to Perl by jesuashok

He did neither of these things, however, and when confronted with the evidence, proceeded to lie about it.

IMHO, compounding your crimes compounds your guilt.

You may of course feel differently about it, especially if yours had been the original work appropriated, without attribution.