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| Book: | Mastering Algorithms with Perl | |
| Subject: | Mastering Algorithms with Perl Review | |
| Date: | 2003-08-20 09:54:51 | |
| From: | Shawn Boyette | |
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Rating:
 
This book does indeed contain a wealth of information on a wide variety of traditional CS topics, and is well-written, with an engaging style. However, many of the code examples are written in highly idiomatic perl. One could argue that this is exactly the point, but one could also argue that there are times when the level of idiom goes beyond "elegant" and straight on into "obfuscated" or "perl golf", reducing the immediate utility of the book as a whole. Personally, I don't want examples to cut and paste into my programs, I want to them to clearly illustrate concept so I can write my own, tailored, implementations. Still, this is on the verge of nitpicking, and there (literally) is no replacement for this book. |
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