[pm-h] September talk

[G. Wade Johnson]

On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 11:24:22 -0500
Mark Allen via Houston <houston at pm.org> wrote:

> I'd like to propose this talk for September's Perl meeting-
> 
> How Functional Programming Made Me Better at Perl

It looks like we have two proposals for a presentation next month.

Julian Brown had suggested "Read Copy Update in the Linux Kernel" as a
topic earlier and I had not gotten a chance to post it yet.

Now, Mark is suggesting a new talk.

You guys want to work out who goes first, and we can push the other
talk to October?

G. Wade

> 
> Although most people treat Perl as an imperative language, it has
> always been possible to use functional programming idioms in Perl 5.
> Vastly better described by Mark Jason Dominius in what I consider to
> be one of the best books about programming (in general, not just
> about Perl)  Higher Order Perl (full text can be found here:
> http://hop.perl.plover.com) I will illustrate many ways that
> functional programming constructions bring great power and
> conciseness to your Perl code.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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