[MLUG] coding languages used in genetics

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Might as well post this.  I just did a search of the long list of programs
given here:  http://linkage.rockefeller.edu/soft/
Most programs should be listed there.  They have a line for "source code
language" so I grepped that line to get a list of languages used in coding
these programs.  Then I grepped that list and came up with these data:

231 programs altogether
 49 list no language in the "source code language" field
 73 C
 39 C++
 32 FORTRAN
 23 Pascal
  7 Java
  7 Perl
  7 Delphi
  5 S or S-Plus
  4 R
  4 Basic
  2 SAS
  1 Python

Some of the programs were written in multiple languages, so the numbers
don't have to add up.  I'm surprised by the small number of Perl programs
entered in the database because I think we use more Perl than this implies
-- maybe we just write our own and don't share it with others.

A few years ago, someone took one of the field's most widely used Pascal
programs, ran it through p2c, compiled with gcc and managed to get it to
run.  It was "six to 30 times faster" than when compiled with Pascal.  I
think this means that the Pascal compilers suck compared to gcc.  They had
made no changes to the algorithms in the code.

Mike

-- 
Michael B. Miller, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Epidemiology
and Institute of Human Genetics
University of Minnesota
http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/~mbmiller/
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