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Re:How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996) by kbenson on Sunday May 05, 2013 @04:08AM (#5657802)
> with no central design

Any supporting evidence to that? If you look into it, you may be surprised.

Here's a hint, Perl doesn't necessarily optimize for the same things other languages optimize for.

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Re:How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996) by nijk on Sunday May 05, 2013 @04:58PM (#5659712)
Perl 5 has no spec, just a bunch of features that seem helpful. It has a philosophy, not a design.
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