> On 6 Feb 2016, at 11:19 PM, matthew sporleder <msporle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Swift Griggs <swiftgri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Again, not complaining. I think it's quirky and cool. I'm just curious. > > […] > If you recall, the late 90's and early 2000's saw a big push in > bioinformatics, and especially with perl as a processing language.
What Matthew said: not sure if, in hindsight, I would have made the same decision today, but at the time, this appeared to be the trend … René