No response?
I hope you guys didn't think I was trolling. I was really hoping that
someone on this list could point to a problem space (e.g. bioinformatics)
or an application domain where they could make a compelling case for
starting a new project in Perl.
I would be concerned about the future
On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 20:25:38 -0400, David Larochelle
da...@larochelle.name 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
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
David Larochelle wrote:
For example, the typical argument for Python in the data analysis
space is that there are good well documented libraries...
This is a fairly recent turn of events. For the longest time, Perl had
CPAN as a huge advantage over the other languages that were encroaching
into
I forgot to mention, there are lots of Perl bioinformatics libraries in CPAN
such us BioPerl, which are very useful and unique, I used them a lot to parse
bio data.
I used both PHP and Perl for Web development also, it seems to me Php is more
friendly, just my 2 cents.
Maria
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