Higher Order Perl
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Higher Order Perl
Mark Jason Dominus
5 people recommended it in 5 threads, 2011–2026.
What people on Hacker News said
Even though I'd mostly moved on from Perl when I read this, this book really helped me better understand C.S. concepts that I should have learned better getting my degree.
This is secretly a book about Lisp for people who are allergic to parenthesis.
I recommend picking these up after you've done work in the languages they're about. They assume that you're already comfortable with the language, but then go back to show how that language uses CS concepts.
They highlight how functional programming, and other classic introductory CS concepts, but stays practical.
Mark-Jason Dominus' "Higher-Order Perl" is fantastic, but unfortunately specific to a language that's most programmers are not choosing in 2011.
His book Higher-Order Perl was really good and introduced me to some interesting programming concepts, but it also helped me realize why no one uses Perl anymore
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