Re: [Nolug] Genome Sequencing uses: Perl

On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 10:45, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> Since someone on this list asked how much Perl was actually used in
> bioinformatics, I thought I'd share this. I'm in a discussion with
> someone at the Genome Sequencing Lab at WUSTL and he told me the
> following:
>
> Yes, Perl is the language of choice. Other languages (C, Java)
> are used very infrequently and their use are driven either by the
> needs of the program (C) or the knowledge of the developer (Java).
> Shell scripting is also used for small stuff.

I'm sure it's because regex's are so efficient in Perl....

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