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

Using algorithms explained in this book, you too can carry out traditional programming tasks in a...