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		kbenson on May 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996) > with no central design Any supporting evidence to that? If you look into it, you may be surprised. Here's a hint, Perl doesn't necessarily optimize for the same things other languages optimize for.

nijk on May 5, 2013 [–]

Perl 5 has no spec, just a bunch of features that seem helpful. It has a philosophy, not a design.

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