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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? by cutler on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @04:42PM (#37313740)
Why probably wrong? Bioperl was very big in the bioinformatics world.
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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? by masklinn on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @04:44PM (#37313771)
> Why probably wrong?

Because I don’t have a great memory and I was never into Perl so I was extremely unsure of the suggestion and didn’t want it to come across as an assertion.

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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? by cutler on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @07:56PM (#37315811)
James Tisdall and O'Reilly produced "Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics" which sold like hotcakes at Perl conferences.
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