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PERL (not Perl) has been almost completely displace in genomics by Python. IMO, it is an inane language with amazing regular expressions.
by diekhans 5y ago
PERL (not Perl) has been almost completely displace in genomics by Python.
IMO, it is an inane language with amazing regular expressions.
- cutler 5y agoThe Camel possesses its own beauty for those with eyes to see it.
- jph00 5y agoNo it's not PERL, it's either Perl or perl, depending on what you're refering to. https://wiki.c2.com/?PerlIsNotAnAcronym https://wiki.c2.com/?PerlIsNotAnAcronym I've been using Perl and Python for over 20 years. Both are delightful, in their own way.
- diekhans 5y agoI stand corrected, I had "Practical Extraction and Report Language" wired into my brain when I fist used in version 1.*. Disliked is horrible syntactic and semantic complexity then as I do now. However, that didn't stop people from doing great things with it. Now, I have to find a bug in someone's Perl program