Mastering Algorithms with Perl

by Jarkko Hietaniemi, Jon Orwant, John Macdonald

Book Overview

Many programmers would love to use Perl for projects that involve heavy lifting, but miss the many traditional algorithms that textbooks teach for other languages. Computer scientists have identified many techniques that a wide range of programs need, such as:

Fuzzy pattern matching for text (identify misspellings ) Finding correlations in data Game-playing algorithms Predicting phenomena such as Web traffic Polynomial and spline fitting

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565923987
• ISBN13: 9781565923980
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 706 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.1" x 9.2"