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  1. Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 09:40:18 MST
  2. Date: Tue, 10 Oct 95 20:13 CDT
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  8. From: gep2@computek.net
  9. Subject: Re: what to use instead of TCL or PERL
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  13.  
  14. >Don't forget one very interesting use of Perl -- because of its facility in
  15. manipulating long strings, it's being used in the human genome mapping project
  16. (I think that's what it's called).  I wouldn't try that in the other scripting
  17. languages I know of ...
  18.  
  19. Fair enough, since you can hardly call SNOBOL4 or Icon mere "scripting 
  20. languages".  SNOBOL4+ allows individual strings up to 32K in length, and that's 
  21. really only an implementation limit, there's no inherent limitation in the 
  22. design of the language.  How long of a single character string do you need?
  23.  
  24. Gordon Peterson
  25. http://www.computek.net/public/gep2/
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