in reply to Unwritten Perl Books

I would agree that an AI book would be useful. Modern AI fields, such as machine learning and statistical learning theory, are barely represented in the Perl world and a book including them would be useful for the new modules and module tutorials, if nothing else.

As long as we are wishing, I would like a book on Numerical Methods and Scientific Computing for Perl. Between PDL and the many mathematical modules on CPAN, I think one can make a good case for Perl as a scientific scripting language (I have done so for many years). Mastering Algorithms with Perl touches on numerical topics, but can't be considered a full numerical manual.

-Mark

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Re^2: Unwritten Perl Books
by belden (Friar) on Jul 14, 2004 at 19:57 UTC

    ++Numerical Methods for Perl.

    I never got beyond college-level algebra. A perl tour of various mathematical fields would be invaluable to me: Perl For Geometers, Differential Equations Explained Using Perl, etc. would definitely help me understand some of the mysterious maths that are required background for most CS programs.

    Belden, who studied Spanish and Chinese instead