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Re: Learning Algorithms using Perl.by LanX (Saint) |
on May 08, 2017 at 20:35 UTC ( [id://1189829]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Perl combines advantages of many languages to make programing easy for people coming from different paradigms. But there are two sides of this medal. Some complain it's hard to read and/or to learn. They deny it to be "a proper language" because they have only one model in mind. Others praise that they learned to master a rich tool set. To answer your question: it's an excellent language to learn algorithms, because there are more than one way to implement them. It's mainly an image problem! For instance I remember reading about a conference on functional programing where some speakers were surprised to learn that Perl has closures and lexical variables.
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