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Remember that in 1996, there weren't many free main-stream programming languages around. There was C, C++, and Java of course, but you'd have to be a more exper
by tgv 5y ago
Remember that in 1996, there weren't many free main-stream programming languages around. There was C, C++, and Java of course, but you'd have to be a more experienced programmer to get that up and running as a CLI tool. And then you'd have to deal with their (lack of) regexp implementations. Makes sense that Perl became the go-to language.
- ImaCake 5y agoI guess python was around then but certainly not like it is now. I wonder if python 1 even had a regex library? My lab, that does a mix of bioinformatics and population genetics, has people who know bash, python, and R. Honestly, I think bash is probably the one that gets used the most. So maybe my command line wouldn’t look that different to the ones used in the human genome project. Although technically I am using zsh most of the time.