<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">This is great. I had the fortune to
listent to MJD's Tricks of the Wizards and other presentations at YAPC
and Boston.pm.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I think we should invite MJD here for
a book signing ceremony.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Everytime I whip out some CGI code in
Perl, I instinctly use Text::Template. Sometime ago, I wrote to MJD thanking
him for his Text::Template contribution and asked him if I should buy him
a pizza. Of course as the very first thing, his spam filter rejected
my mail. I persevered. His reply was "If you like Text::Template,
send a donation to FSF". I promptly followed his suggestion.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I would like LA.pm to be able to invite
MJD and another favorite Damian Conway (I need to buy his OO book too,
and have it signed by him, g'day Damian!).</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Regards all.....</font>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>David Cohen <cohen4@mindspring.com></b></font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif"> Subject:
[LA.pm] This just in: Mark Jason Dominus
has finished writing his new book, "Higher Order Perl" and it's
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<br><font size=2><tt>Extra, extra--read all about it: for those of you
not on his book mailing <br>
list, MJD has finished (and titled) his book on doing functional <br>
programming in Perl programming, "Higher Order Perl" which,
in Hollywood <br>
pitch-meeting lingo, might be described as the Wizard book meets the Llama
<br>
book, a story of how ivory tower functional-programming techniques were
<br>
smuggled out the pearly gates down into the Perl-y trenches...well, you
get <br>
the idea.<br>
<br>
It was nice to see in the announcement that I got that some of our own
<br>
LA.pm'ers were credited with helping, such as Ben Tilly. But taking pride
<br>
of place was none other than our fearless leader, Robert Spier:<br>
<br>
>Most of the work of the last few weeks has been writing tests to<br>
>test the example code. In this, I was assisted by Robert Spier.
I<br>
>can't say enough good things about Robert. He was amazingly diligent<br>
>and thorough, cheerful, and a pleasure to work with. I could
not have<br>
>done the testing without him, and without the testing the book would<br>
>have been substantially worse.<br>
<br>
Kudos to you, Robert.<br>
<br>
In any case, it looks like the publisher, Morgan Kaufman, will be taking
it <br>
from here--should be out in October. And...when it's all done, the book
<br>
will also be freely available online--keep your eyes peeled.<br>
<br>
For more info on MJD's book, and to sign up on his mailing list, look here:<br>
http://perl.plover.com/book/<br>
___<br>
DC<br>
<br>
P.S. For those of you wondering about SICP, aka the Wizard book, you can
<br>
download it in its entirety here: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/<br>
<br>
P.P.S. If you're too lazy/busy to read the SICP book, watch Sussman and
<br>
Abelson give a 20-part lecture series on the material here for employees
of <br>
HP--download all the videos (in DivX, if you like) here: <br>
http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/<br>
<br>
P.P.P.S. And, for those of you who've read this far, if you are interested
<br>
in seeing what the 21st century analog of Sussman and Abelson's book will
<br>
be, check this out:<br>
http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/PVR/book.html<br>
<br>
Sadly, now that MIT Press has published it, "Concepts, Techniques,
and <br>
Models of Computer Programming" the online draft is gone. Amazon has
the <br>
book for a few bucks off...or just read the reviews:<br>
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0262220695/qid=1084790942/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-9162143-5796951?v=glance&s=books&n=507846<br>
<br>
And this:<br>
http://lambda.weblogs.com/discuss/msgReader$4393<br>
<br>
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