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A comment on How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996). Parent comment

Re:How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996) by nijk on Sunday May 05, 2013 @05:10PM (#5659750)
"the" language is then more of a loosely couples family of languages.
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Re:How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996) by berntb on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @10:24AM (#5668273)
Not half as much as any Lisp variant with good macros.

Edit: The possibility to extend your environment is generally seen as a good thing, unless you believe in cleanliness of bloo... languages for ideological reasons.

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