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Re:Tcl is faster than Python for database benchmarking on Monday November 07, 2022 @09:32AM (#33506226)
Perl is GIL-free too, actually.
Re:Perl7 is a fork of values on Monday August 03, 2020 @02:05PM (#24041177)
> Had a chance to work with Leon on the TestAnything protocol. Really great guy to work with.

Why thank you :-)

Re:Perl7 is a fork of values on Saturday August 01, 2020 @03:45PM (#24023316)
Perl 5 has been declared dead before, I don't think it will die that easily :-)

Given that 95% of CPAN supports a 15 year old version of Perl (and even Mojo supports an 8 years old version), I don't think the ecosystem is going to drop it any time soon.

Re:How YouPorn Uses Redis: SFW Edition on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @08:16PM (#6137763)
That is an unofficial manpage for perl 4, a release that has been obsolete since 1994…
Re:A farewell to bioinformatics (2012) on Thursday February 07, 2013 @07:18PM (#5185422)
Check the Sanger Institute's job page (https://jobs.sanger.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.show_page?p_web...). They offer «£29,750 to £37,525» for a "senior bioinformatician", for example.