Yeah, I feel like that was a pretty common workflow. Someone would get a new algorithm working in Perl, test it on fairly small datasets, maybe publish their pa

Yeah, I feel like that was a pretty common workflow. Someone would get a new algorithm working in Perl, test it on fairly small datasets, maybe publish their paper, then some poor chump would have to carefully rewrite it in C to make it actually useful for real data. I was at a university, so our chumps were grad students. I'm sure interns were the industry equivalent :)