in reply to Re^3: Parsing newick trees
in thread Parsing newick trees

I think the phrase (instead of 'obfuscated') you want is 'general, debugged, maintained, comprehensive

Here's an alternative phrase based on my experience of trying to use Bioperl modules:

Nearly impossible to install; complicated, over-engineered, incomprehensible, slow and buggy.
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