[Neworleans-pm] higher order perl

[Brett D. Estrade]

I'll definitely let you know what I think.  Damian's book help me
understand Perl itself more than it did turn me on to its OOP abilities,
and it looks like Mark's book is going to give me another indepth look
at Perl's abilities from the functional programming perspective.  As a
computer scientist, I am very much interested in the "higher order"
aspects of Perl, and I think this is going to give me another good dose
of insight.  I will certainly post my thoughts on the book once I've
gone through it.

Brett

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:38:36 -0400, "James Keenan" <jkeen at verizon.net>
said:
> 
> > Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:28:12 -0500
> > From: "Brett D. Estrade" <estrabd at mailcan.com>
> > Subject: [Neworleans-pm] higher order perl
> > To: NewOrleans-pm at mail.pm.org
> >
> > I just got this book by Markus Jason Dominus in, and it looks very
> > interesting.
> 
> s/Markus/Mark/;
> 
> > I am hoping to get the same amount of enlightenment that
> > Damian Conway's "Object Oriented Perl" gave me.  HOP focuses on the
> > functional programming aspect of Perl, and as the introduction says,
> > "...Perl is much better at being Perl than it is at being a slow 
> > version
> > at C" - which is how most people structure their Perl programs,
> > especially if you are traditionally a C programmer.
> >
> 
> I'll be interested in your reactions to it.  I followed its development 
> on a mailing list which MJD set up and went to a book-signing party he 
> had for it in Philadelphia in June.  We had a roundtable discussion on 
> it at our Perl Seminar NY meeting in May.  It's certainly a work of 
> erudition, but I wonder whether it will have as big an impact on the 
> way people actually write Perl as "OOP" did -- or as I suspect Damian's 
> new book will.
> 
> Anyhow, it's good to see this list picking up again!
> 
> jimk
> 
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