From estrabd at mailcan.com Fri Oct 21 12:28:12 2005 From: estrabd at mailcan.com (Brett D. Estrade) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:28:12 -0500 Subject: [Neworleans-pm] higher order perl Message-ID: <1129922892.7196.245729203@webmail.messagingengine.com> I just got this book by Markus Jason Dominus in, and it looks very interesting. 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. BTW, my favorite line of the whole book so far is "..it is said that a good FORTRAN programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any language.." I work with FORTRAN programmers, and I had to laugh at how true this is...really :) Hope life is getting back to normal for you all. Brett -- ~Sedit qui timuit ne non succederet~ From jkeen at verizon.net Sat Oct 22 14:38:36 2005 From: jkeen at verizon.net (James Keenan) Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:38:36 -0400 Subject: [Neworleans-pm] higher order perl In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8ebc7ed5f8722250029d6008fff53759@verizon.net> > Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:28:12 -0500 > From: "Brett D. Estrade" > 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 From estrabd at mailcan.com Sun Oct 23 15:12:37 2005 From: estrabd at mailcan.com (Brett D. Estrade) Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 17:12:37 -0500 Subject: [Neworleans-pm] higher order perl In-Reply-To: <8ebc7ed5f8722250029d6008fff53759@verizon.net> References: <8ebc7ed5f8722250029d6008fff53759@verizon.net> Message-ID: <1130105557.31401.245824226@webmail.messagingengine.com> 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" said: > > > Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:28:12 -0500 > > From: "Brett D. Estrade" > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > NewOrleans-pm mailing list > NewOrleans-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/neworleans-pm -- ~Sedit qui timuit ne non succederet~