Title: Okay book, bad language & subject matter
Product review: Perl is a great language which I have used every single day since Perl 3, but it is not the ideal tool for testing algorithms & their speed. While the algorithm ideas are applicable to any language, the Perl code is not portable (specially with Perl's particular syntaxis). This book tries to be like "Numerical Recipes for C" but falls short on both subject matter. If you are an average to decent Perl Hacker, the material in this book will still be useless to you and probably put you to sleep quickly since you \won't get it. If, on the other hand, you are math student or scientist, the book will also have make you yawn, since you'll have already seen the examples before and in a much more clear & portable language: C.
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