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Perl is a portable general-purpose dynamic programming language. It is used in a diverse variety of domains: system management scripting, text processing, web content management, Biology calculations, and others. It has a rich library of free reusable modules - the CPAN and a vibrant community of users and developers.
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Why is Perl so heavily used in Bioinformatics?
Aside from the inherent virtues of Perl, part of this is simply history. There was a major expansion of bioinformatics at the turn of the century because of the Human Genome Project. … This gave Perl a lot of momentum in the field.
I think the use of Perl in bioinformatics is declining, and R is rapidly increasing in popularity. …
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Is it true that "Real programmers can write assembly code in any language."?
It's a snarky/funny suggestion that many programmers end up writing generic, plodding, one-step-after-the-other code, even when the language provides sophisticated constructs that would allow for clev …
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Java API vs. Other APIs
C++, Perl, and even Python are all older then Java, and because of Moore's law they were developed in an environment where disk and memory were one or two orders of magnitude more expensive. …
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