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How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project
- draegtun 17y agoFor reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioperl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioperl
- tybris 17y agoPerl saved the world many times over.
- bad_user 17y agoCPAN: http://search.cpan.org/~birney/bioperl-1.2.3/ http://search.cpan.org/~birney/bioperl-1.2.3/ CPAN rocks :)
- codeodor 17y agoIt's an interesting article, but the title could use some work. It does get around to asking "So What's Perl Got to Do With It?" which is what you're thinking throughout the article, but it doesn't do a good job of answering it. You could have dropped Perl from the entire text (minus the "Conclusion") and had a good article as well. It also never really makes the case that the Human Genome Project was in jeopardy, much less that Perl saved it. Interesting article, but crap headline.
- nixy 17y agoPerl also powers the daily batches in the Swedish pension system, handling billions of dollars every day. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/perl/news/swedishpension_0601.html http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/perl/news/swedishpen...
- fiaz 17y agoBeautiful article...please more like this. I had no idea that Perl was used for something so important and on such a large scale.
- whirlycott1 17y agoAnd this article is from 1997. I'm japh myself and I love the language, so don't take this as a knock against perl. But why the ancient perl articles today?
- mst 17y agoI think the perl users on here are experimenting with what's of wide enough interest for others to care - http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org/ http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org/ is publishing lots and lots of new perl stuff but I suspect most of it isn't particularly to hacker news' taste.