Perl 5.16 and Relevance
Perl 5.16 and Relevance
Posted Sep 14, 2011 17:42 UTC (Wed) by k8to (guest, #15413)In reply to: Perl 5.16 and Relevance by dskoll
Parent article: Vincent: Perl 5.16 and Beyond
Debian has been moving deliberately towards python from perl for their administrative tools. They don't foolishly abandon stuff just for language purity but the drift is there.
I'm intrigued that bioinformatics is still solidly on the perl train. It always seemed a surprising choice to me. Perhaps it will end up like fortran for physics -- used forever in that space.
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