Part II. Science
In this section, four articles demonstrate some scientific applications of Perl, with two hobbyist-oriented topics followed by two professional topics. John Redford begins with an article about how he designed and built a sundial for his backyard, using Perl to give it accuracy down to the minute. Brad Murray and Ken Williams follow with a tutorial on genetic algorithms in Perl, showing how to breed functions that incrementally evolve toward a desired solution.
One of the most popular articles in TPJ’s history was Lincoln Stein’s Chapter 10, which chronicled how he used our favorite language to glue together disparate data formats originating in genome laboratories scattered around the globe. Astronomers Karl Glazebrook and Frossie Economou conclude the chapter with a description of the Perl Data Language, an extension to Perl optimized for manipulating large data sets such as high-resolution pictures.
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