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by diekhans 1586 days ago
PERL (not Perl) has been almost completely displace in genomics by Python.

IMO, it is an inane language with amazing regular expressions.
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jph00 1586 days ago
No it's not PERL, it's either Perl or perl, depending on what you're refering to.

https://wiki.c2.com/?PerlIsNotAnAcronym

I've been using Perl and Python for over 20 years. Both are delightful, in their own way.

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diekhans 1586 days ago
I stand corrected, I had "Practical Extraction and Report Language" wired into my brain when I fist used in version 1.*.

Disliked is horrible syntactic and semantic complexity then as I do now.

However, that didn't stop people from doing great things with it.

Now, I have to find a bug in someone's Perl program

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cutler 1586 days ago
The Camel possesses its own beauty for those with eyes to see it.
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