I was toying with posting this here as "One-Quarter of my Life with Perl" (riffing on Randal's talk title) (16 yrs x 4 was close enough for government work), bu

I was toying with posting this here as "One-Quarter of my Life with Perl" (riffing on Randal's talk title) (16 yrs x 4 was close enough for government work), but I refrained. After surveying popular social media sites (i.e., reactions to this Perl Advent Calendar entry), I now appreciate that some folks may be triggered by the subject matter. Our friend and fellow Perl-er, Lincoln Stein, wrote an article for The Perl Journal (TPJ) back in the day, called "How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project" https://bioperl.org/articles/How_Perl_saved_human_genome.html https://bioperl.org/articles/How_Perl_saved_human_genome.htm...