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Wasn't there a time when biologists used perl a lot and thought it was great? It's all about being the first to market (while not totally sucking). And S is so
by htns 13y ago
Wasn't there a time when biologists used perl a lot and thought it was great? It's all about being the first to market (while not totally sucking). And S is so old I'm not even sure if they had any scripting languages with operator overloading back then.
- jebus989 13y agoThat still happens, anecdotally a recent blog poll found Perl still being voted the third ""best"" language for a bioinformatician, after R and Python. [1] http://computationalproteomic.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/which-are-best-programming-languages.html http://computationalproteomic.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/which-a...