Why Python?
Thu, 2009-09-03 08:42 — rebelsky
The original Exploring Bioinformatics uses Perl as its primary programming language. Why are we making the switch to Python? For a number of reasons.
- Evidence suggests that Python is easier to learn than Perl.
- Python is typically used in an interactive style, which seems more natural for many of the explorations.
- Python is seeing increasing use in Bioinformatics.
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