[aklug] Re: Perl - Functional Programming Language?

From: Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org>
Date: Thu Dec 18 2014 - 22:50:36 AKST

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Christopher Howard <ch.howard@zoho.com>
wrote:
>
> Curious, any Perl gurus left on the list?
>
> I was refreshing my Perl skills to write a small script I needed, when
> I came across this:
>
> http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/pdf/HigherOrderPerl.pdf
>
> Apparently, somebody wrote a 500 page book on how you can use Perl to
> do advanced higher-order functional programming. After reading the
> table of contents, I practically drooled on my keyboard. :)

I only read parts of it, but MJD is absolutely brilliant. If Damian Conway
writes your forward and says that your book is a game-changer, it is. :-)

Let us know what you think!

Royce

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