Bioperl: Re: Objects in Bioinformatics BoF on VHLLs

[Ewan Birney]

On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Andrew Dalke wrote:

I will be coming to the OiB meeting (giving a talk noless!). So
I'll be around. 

> Hello,
> 
>  = = = = = = = = = =
> 
>   Birds-of-a-feather - Very High Level Languages for Bioinformatics
> 
>   Very high level languages let people write new algorithms and
> even build complete applications quickly and with less effort than
> more traditional languages.  Perl is well known in the sequence world
> (see bio.perl.org), Python has a following in biomolecular structures
> (see http://starship.python.net/crew/hinsen/mmtk.html), and Tcl
> has its own set of fans.
> 
>   This BOF is for people who are using VHLLs in bioinformatics
> projects to talk about what they are doing and hear from others.
> If you've never heard of a VHLL, come by and we'll try to convert
> you to our language of choice!
> 
>   If you want to give a short talk (five minutes or so) on how you
> use a VHLL, please contact me at the hotel so I can organize
> things.

Andrew - I will be there and coming to your BoF, but if it is 100%
python conversion advocacy I will probably slink off to the bar ;).


Looking forward to seeing you there. (plus any other bioperlers).

> 
>                                 Andrew Dalke <dalke@acm.org>
>                                 (infrequent email access until OiB)
>  = = = = = = = = = =
> 

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