Re: [Nolug] Genome Sequencing uses: Perl

No doubt .. might I add that Perl is much nearly ubiquitous on *nix
machines - thats the part that makes Perl most useful to my job :)

Brett

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:27:05 -0500, "Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
said:
> On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 11:03, Brett D. Estrade wrote:
> > 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 ;)
>
> Python does all that too. (And I presume Ruby, but don't know
> enough about it.)
>
> > 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...
>
> "Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse."
> Larry Wall, 10/14/1998
>
> > 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....
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Ron Johnson, Jr. ron.l.johnson@cox.net
> Jefferson, LA USA
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