Re: [Nolug] Genome Sequencing uses: Perl

Don't forget about dynamic typing, cross platform compatibility, small
learning curve for basic tasks, huge amount of modules, community
support, ... what am I missing? Oh yeah - it rocks ;)

I think they say it makes the hard things easy and the impossible things
possible....

I use Perl for the majority of my work here at NRL, and if I have my way
it will be the language of choice for most things :). I am continually
amazed that some people still tolerate using fortran or c for simple
tasks, file i/o, and string manipulation. The only thing you need
fortran or c for are a few tasks that involve very intensive mathematical
calculations, and even that code can be compiled and implemented as a sub
in perl...

Brett

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:53:49 -0500, "Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
said:
> 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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