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Comment Re:Marvel of efficiency (Score 1) 58

by ivarneli on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @11:23AM (#28361949) Attached to: Aussie Scientists Build a Cluster To Map the Sky

I think it's unlikely that Perl is being used for any of the heavy computations. I would guess that Perl is being used as a glue language that interfaces with the database and programs written in lower-level languages to do the heavy lifting.

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