I think you're conflating "algorithm" with "paradigm". Every algorithm can be expressed in a procedural fashion. It can also be expressed in recursive fashion, functional fashion, or declarative fashion. Every algorithm also has a fashion that it is expressed very simply and one that is torturous to express it in.
- In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is. :-)
- "What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?"