Re:How Lisp-family languages facilitate building bioinformat...
by throwanem on Monday January 09, 2017 @06:23AM
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> many users are still using Perl. It would be [hard] to have them migrate
I spent a year as a staff member of a genomics institute, and researchers occasionally came to me for help getting the local sui generis tooling stack set up and working sanely. (Well, I say "stack"; jwz's bookcase-from-mashed-potatoes metaphor hastens to mind.)
Having seen the miseries they went through, I don't think it would necessarily have to be all that hard to make migration look good, especially to a language whose syntax is other than wildly irregular and whose performance is other than usually abysmal.
I spent a year as a staff member of a genomics institute, and researchers occasionally came to me for help getting the local sui generis tooling stack set up and working sanely. (Well, I say "stack"; jwz's bookcase-from-mashed-potatoes metaphor hastens to mind.)
Having seen the miseries they went through, I don't think it would necessarily have to be all that hard to make migration look good, especially to a language whose syntax is other than wildly irregular and whose performance is other than usually abysmal.