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dalke on May 7, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tackling Webdev as a Bioinformatician: why is it s...

Fun bit of trivia: the first two major web libraries - cgi-lib.pl and CGI.pm - were written by bioinformaticians. Steven E. Brenner and Lincoln Stein, respectively.

davidjnelson on May 7, 2020 [–]

Cgi.pm was great, really nice little abstraction. Create react app is also a really nice abstraction, although I wouldn’t call it little :-)

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