How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project

It's an interesting article, but the title could use some work. It does get around to asking "So What's Perl Got to Do With It?" which is what you're thinking throughout the article, but it doesn't do a good job of answering it. You could have dropped Perl from the entire text (minus the "Conclusion") and had a good article as well.

It also never really makes the case that the Human Genome Project was in jeopardy, much less that Perl saved it.

Interesting article, but crap headline.

For reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioperl

CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/~birney/bioperl-1.2.3/ CPAN rocks :)

Perl also powers the daily batches in the Swedish pension system, handling billions of dollars every day.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/perl/news/swedishpen...

And this article is from 1997. I'm japh myself and I love the language, so don't take this as a knock against perl. But why the ancient perl articles today?

Perl saved the world many times over.

Beautiful article...please more like this. I had no idea that Perl was used for something so important and on such a large scale.