.. forgot about is_int() .. the point you make about feature-creep is particularly pertinent in bioinformatics - e.g. the Perl package BioPerl is a great repository of algorithms that could run a lot quicker in pretty much any other language, bar BASIC!

Thu, 11/11/2010 - 16:16 Permalink

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