[pm-h] September talk

[Mark Allen]

I can go in October - didn't know Julian had a topic �� Sounds good

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> On Aug 28, 2016, at 12:01 PM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston <houston at pm.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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