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Re:Why Are Some People So Smart? by pwang on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @04:24AM (#9412799)
It's absolutely pathetic that that kid had to learn Perl to do genomics.
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Re:Why Are Some People So Smart? by noir_lord on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @05:22AM (#9412964)
Why?

Sequence data is series of huge strings, perl is famed for its string handling.

I don't see the issue.

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Re:Why Are Some People So Smart? by supercoder on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @05:19AM (#9412957)
What would you recommend should be the alternative
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Re:Why Are Some People So Smart? by cymetica on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @11:35AM (#9414744)
Tcl
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