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nijk on May 5, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996)

"the" language is then more of a loosely couples family of languages.

berntb on May 7, 2013 [–]

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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