Comment by vintermann
Comment by vintermann 15 hours ago
Also for historical reasons I think, since Perl used to be the big bioinformatics language, and it is surprisingly hard to compete with in string handling.
Comment by vintermann 15 hours ago
Also for historical reasons I think, since Perl used to be the big bioinformatics language, and it is surprisingly hard to compete with in string handling.
Perl+strings really is one of those ‘unreasonably effective’ combinations.
It feels like Benzene in some ways. Use it correctly and gdamn. Just don’t huff it - i mean - use it for your enterprise backend - and it’s worth it.