How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project

Hello fellow monks, I stumbled across this article describing how Perl helped the human genome project. It is an interesting read.

Mahesh

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Re: How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project by GrandFather (Saint) on May 30, 2009 at 03:30 UTC
Did you notice that the two down sides of using Perl mentioned toward the end of the article are both fixed by using strictures? I wonder how much of the code alluded to was passed under the eyes of the monks for scrutiny and bug fixing? True laziness is hard work	[reply]