Subj : Re: do serious programmers have a life?
To   : comp.lang.c++,comp.programming
From : Randy Howard
Date : Sat Sep 24 2005 07:57 am

Phlip wrote
(in article <W34Ze.1009$rx5.192@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net>):

>> Ah, keep in mind that this is Philip's opinion, and may not be shared
>> by many. Do some more research before committing a lot of time.
> 
> Ah, yes of course. The original poster should only pursue opinions that are 
> shared by many.
> 
> However, in this case a Google for +bioinformatics +python returns 1.2 
> _million_ hits. So maybe you should take more care before assuming that 
> /all/ of the opinions I spout here are not shared...

And a google for +bioinformatics +java returns 2.4 _million_ 
hits. 

If you s/java/c you get 10.1 million, but that's probably 
cheating, and I didn't bother to check all of them.  :-)

Even lowly perl offers up 1.57 million.

So much for using google hit counts to make points.  :-)

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Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR)

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