By Walt Mankowski (‎waltman‎) from Philadelphia.pm
Date: Tuesday, 22 June 2010 09:00
Duration: 40 minutes
Target audience: Intermediate
Language: English
Tags: academia glue research

Perl for CS Grad Students

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As a PhD student in Computer Science, I crunch numbers all day long. While Perl's a great language for all sorts of things, it's pretty slow at math. Nevertheless I couldn't do my research without Perl; it's the glue that binds all my other tools together. In this talk I'll describe how I use Perl in my research. Topics I'll discuss will include implementing graph algorithms with Graph.pm, using Perl as a scripting language for little languages like graphviz and gnuplot, and using Expect.pm to create a database-backed front-end to Matlab.

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