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Re:Seq – A Language for Bioinformatics by dawkot on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @05:58PM (#22112680)
"Trying to be all things to all people is a good way to be mediocre at all of them."

What prevents a language from providing high-level features on top of low-level ones? It's a false dichotomy.

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Re:Seq – A Language for Bioinformatics by nsstring96 on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @06:55PM (#22113120)
You get C++... take that as you will.
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Re:Seq – A Language for Bioinformatics by dawkot on Thursday January 23, 2020 @03:07PM (#22131320)
All a high-level language needs to also be low-level is a minimal runtime and ability to manually manage memory.
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