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I have decided I will switch to one of those two when I finish the project I am working on right now, probably python. - Pedro Beltrao
I do envy BioPerls breadth and maturity compared with BioPython .. but not enough to tempt me to switch back to Perl after my early beginnings with that language. I've looked into ways to call Perl functions from Python, but there doesn't seem to be anything that works well and is maintained. - Andrew Perry
BioPerl was essentially my reason for starting out in Perl, about 8 years back. Perl CGI also used to be the way to go for web apps, but the new web frameworks are much more appealing. Increasingly too, I find Perl unwieldy, slow and well...ugly. It's much nicer to write "l = a.length" than to loop through some horrifically complex data structure just to get to a variable. Admittedly, one of my weaknesses is creating horrifically complex data structures :) - Neil Saunders