How Lisp-family languages facilitate building bioinformatics applications

Re:How Lisp-family languages facilitate building bioinformat... by throwanem on Monday January 09, 2017 @08:01AM (#13356013)

Lisp someone else wrote is harder to read than Perl you wrote, but any Lisp is easier to read than Perl someone else wrote.

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Re:How Lisp-family languages facilitate building bioinformat... by wtbob on Monday January 09, 2017 @09:58PM (#13362176)

My experience with Perl was that me-a-week-ago counts as someone else. That's not flippant — it's an accurate reflection of my experience that Perl tends to be write-only.

There are some people who do write beautiful Perl, but they are few and far between (again, in my experience).

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