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Perl on Stackoverflow #biology #perl

🕡︎ - 2014-06-09

Funny how many of the bad questions about Perl on Stackoverflow are related to handling files coming from microbiology.

I guess being an introductory language in bioinformatics is one of the remaining strongholds for Perl. Except for BioPython and, maybe, BioRuby.

Wouldn't it be fun if BioHaskell took off? I don't feel like learning Python, or Ruby.

🕡︎ - 2014-06-09 - 0 comments

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