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This is already happening. The world of science woke up one day and realized that the C++ and Java their CS friends were talking about weren't helping them solve problems. So they switched to Python and Perl and now we have the human genome.

Oh, that's how it happened? Weird, I thought they were using lots of C++.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/IEB/ToolBox/CPP_DOC/

http://www.seqan.de/

I guess I'd better go remind them to cancel their conferences and close up shop.




Don't be such a jackass. I didn't say nobody was using C++ or Java. I was saying that many individual researchers switched from Java for things like "scripts".

Infrastructure written by programmers will use different tools than glue code written by scientists.




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