A poor workman blames his tools. Not a great defense. Perl is a great language for bioinformatics, and is also a great language used the right way. It's not pe

A poor workman blames his tools. Not a great defense. Perl is a great language for bioinformatics, and is also a great language used the right way. It's not persuasive to assume anyone who is critical of something cannot use it. Many good workmen criticism tools only to make better tools.