[dons]

Not sure I want to do BlackScholes and MC or solving SAT problems or data structures in perl..

But text processing , hell yeah. perl -pei ftw!

The legacy is perl REs

[Mithaldu]

You can probably do those with PDL.pm :)

http://pdl.perl.org/?page=screenshots/index

[dima55]

Why not? PDL exists for numerical computation. Works fine.