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