Mastering Algorithms with Perl

Whether one is an amateur programmer or knows a wide range of algorithms in other languages, this book will illustrate 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.

Explaining how to enhance the capabilities of the Apache Web server, a guide to Web programming discusses the design of Apache, mod perl, and the Apache API and demonstrates how to use them to rewrite CGI scripts, convert file formats, and more. Original. (Intermediate).

Provides readers with the methods, algorithms, and means to perform text mining tasks This book is devoted to the fundamentals of text mining using Perl, an open-source programming tool that is freely available via the Internet (www.perl.org). It covers mining ideas from several perspectives--statistics, data mining, linguistics, and information retrieval--and

Programming on the Web today can involve any of several technologies, but the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) has held its ground as the most mature method--and one of the most powerful ones--of providing dynamic web content. CGI is a generic interface for calling external programs to crunch numbers, query databases,

Seventy articles from the first five years of "The Perl Journal" discuss advanced programming techniques, the mechanics of Perl, and other aspects of computer science.