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PERL (not Perl) has been almost completely displace in genomics by Python.

IMO, it is an inane language with amazing regular expressions.

No it's not PERL, it's either Perl or perl, depending on what you're refering to.

I've been using Perl and Python for over 20 years. Both are delightful, in their own way.

I stand corrected, I had "Practical Extraction and Report Language" wired into my brain when I fist used in version 1.*.

Disliked is horrible syntactic and semantic complexity then as I do now.

However, that didn't stop people from doing great things with it.

Now, I have to find a bug in someone's Perl program

The Camel possesses its own beauty for those with eyes to see it.