Surprisingly (but not really), I found myself in a position to harness my late-90s perl for cgi experience for the sciences after bioinformatics began to take o

Surprisingly (but not really), I found myself in a position to harness my late-90s perl for cgi experience for the sciences after bioinformatics began to take off. Python makes quite a few things easier if only because of how "teachable" it is between colleagues, but the really useful tools that bear more in common with the human relationship with data as text-at-scale were part and parcel to the POSIX-likes. The biggest challenges I faced were getting IT to let me use Linux at work and convincing peers to try it.