algorithms are just what you implement using Perl, and for sure Perl has many many tools to help you in writing your own algorithms.

Good algorithms or bad ones depends on the coder, generally not on the language. There are also some primitive programming language, let'say vbscript that are unfriendly, there are others that are specialized to do something so they are not good for other tasks, let's say SQL. Perl is very flexible and generalistic, it was designed and is still maintatined and renewed to 'make easy tasks easy and complex tasks possible'.

And it is true! Al-Khwarizmi, ops algorithms are just the flow you want paint using a programming language, it depends on your skill and your background. Perl can bring you through all these steps and after years and decades you can still feel the challenge.

The world is full of not so well informed collegues, dont worry and go on.

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