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Informationen zum Autor Jarkko Hietaniemi is the creator and Master Librarian of CPAN: Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. He has also been known to frequent Perl developer forums. Luckily enough! getting his MSc in CS in the field of parallel computing didn't interfere overly much with his Perl and UNIX hacking. During those savored moments of off-line time! he fancies gobbling up speculative fiction and popular science. His real life employer is Nokia Research Center. Klappentext 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 fittingUsing algorithms explained in this book! you too can carry out traditional programming tasks in a high-powered! efficient! easy-to-maintain manner with Perl.This book assumes a basic understanding of Perl syntax and functions! but not necessarily any background in computer science. The authors explain in a readable fashion the reasons for using various classic programming techniques! the kind of applications that use them! and -- most important -- how to code these algorithms in Perl.If you are an amateur programmer! this book will fill you in on the essential algorithms you need to solve problems like an expert. If you have already learned algorithms in other languages! you will be surprised at how much different (and often easier) it is to implement them in Perl. And yes! the book even has the obligatory fractal display program.There have been dozens of books on programming algorithms! some of them excellent! but never before has there been one that uses Perl.The authors include the editor of The Perl Journal and master librarian of CPAN; all are contributors to CPAN and have archived much of the code in this book there."This book was so exciting I lost sleep reading it." Tom Christiansen Zusammenfassung Provides information on how to carry out traditional programming tasks in a high-powered! efficient! easy-to-maintain manner with Perl. Topics range in complexity from sorting and searching to statistical algorithms! numerical analysis! and encryption. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Basic Data Structures Chapter 3: Advanced Data Structures Chapter 4: Sorting Chapter 5: Searching Chapter 6: Sets Chapter 7: Matrices Chapter 8: Graphs Chapter 9: Strings Chapter 10: Geometric Algorithms Chapter 11: Number Systems Chapter 12: Number Theory Chapter 13: Cryptography Chapter 14: Probability Chapter 15: Statistics Chapter 16: Numerical Analysis Further Reading ASCII Character Set Colophon ...
