I had worked in a bioinformatics lab at Cornell for 4 years, since my lab has many existing codes written in Perl, I started to learn it and almost wrote the program right away. I was fascinated by the flexibility of the language, it is really easy to do parsing which is very useful in bioinfo area. I feel it is quite quick to get the foot into the door, but it is hard to go deeper. The Perl course is also offered at my previous institute and also Cornell campus, the most interesting people are from biology major, so I believe Perl is still promising especially in bioinfomatics area, maybe more experienced tutors are needed.
My current job doesn't need use Perl, but environment behind is built in Perl, I am glad I still can dig things in Perl and I have special feelings for this language:) I hope I can contribute to the community more though I am not a Perl expert compared to many people here. Best Wishes, Maria On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 9:00 PM, \js <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 20:25:38 -0400, David Larochelle < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I would be concerned about the future of the language if no one can make >> this case. >> > > well, i'm not sure how hard anyone tried. and to be quite honest, the > future of perl depends on many other things besides a discussion on an > email list. > > -- > \js > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/**listinfo/boston-pm<http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm> > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
