[michaelhoffman]

Software engineering is important for bioinformatics, in my opinion. But it's important to identify the things that are important and aren't:

Reproducible code: extremely important. Correct code: extremely important. Readable code: very important. Efficient code: often not as important.

Even today, the UCSC Genome Browser is an example where efficient code is important. It is interactive software, has many human users who can work much efficiently when the browser is responsive. And with projects like ENCODE, there are now incredible amounts of data available from the browser that would not be easily possible with a less efficient system.

Very different from an analysis system that will be run a handful of times in batch mode.

[jk4930]

>Reproducible code: extremely important. Correct code: extremely important. Readable code: very important. Efficient code: often not as important.

You want Haskell. :)