Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs
May 5th, 2010 by CGI & PHP.com
- ISBN13: 9781558607019
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Most Perl programmers were originally trained as C and Unix programmers, so the Perl programs that they write bear a strong resemblance to C programs. However, Perl incorporates many features that have their roots in other languages such as Lisp. These advanced features are not well understood and are rarely used by most Perl programmers, but they are very powerful. They can automate tasks in everyday programming that are difficult to solve in any other way. One of … More >>
Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs
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May 5th, 2010 at 8:39 am
This is one of those academic texts over which programming fetishists salivate. Those of us that program for a living won't find this book very useful. There are some interesting algorithmic niches explored for procedural programmers that one in a million may find useful. But truly Higher Order Perl isn't about functional algorithms, it's about object modelling. For instance, why discuss the primitive concept of callbacks, when Object Oriented Programming is possible?
Rating: 2 / 5
May 5th, 2010 at 10:06 am
Take advantage of this book to step out from day-to-day scripting with Perl to grow to programming a real applications.
Rating: 4 / 5
May 5th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
good book, for people with computer science background! otherwise a little hard to understand the algorithm.
Rating: 5 / 5
May 5th, 2010 at 2:10 pm
As you might expect from a book called Higher-Order Perl, this book is not for beginners. That said, it's a wonderful addition to an intermediate/experienced Perl programmer's library.
Rating: 5 / 5
May 5th, 2010 at 3:20 pm
This book is excellent. Unless you're a programming genius as well as a Perl genius, this book will teach a a lot of cool Perl tricks, and a lot of cool programming techniques which can be applied to all sorts of thorny problems and even implemented in other languages (although, some of the techniques might be a real pain to write in one of the "real" programming languages i.e. C/C++/C#/Java).
I am much more of a Python programmer and I tend to avoid Perl if I can, but reading this book makes me want to write Perl code again.
OK, maybe that feeling doesn't last for long, but it reminds why Python (and Ruby!) owe so much to Perl and the Perl community.
Rating: 5 / 5