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Higher-Order Perl Available For Free Download

Posted by kdawson on from the virtual-special-shelf dept.

Christopher Cashell writes "As noted on Perlbuzz, Mark Jason Dominus's amazing book, Higher-Order Perl, is now available for free download. This is a great book that goes way beyond your normal programming reference. This will change the way you look at programs, and make you a better programmer in any language. It sits on that special shelf reserved for books like Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, The C Programming Language, and The Practice of Programming."

8 of 68 comments (clear)

  1. The origin of PERL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    There's been
    .0 an explosion
    /|\ at the ASCII
    .| factory!!!!
    /|\

    1. Re:The origin of PERL by speculatrix · · Score: 4, Funny

      a good programmer can write a script which does the same thing whether run in perl or executed as sendmail.cf

  2. Lorrie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    He dedicated his book to a truck?

  3. Re:How *do* they do that? by dfay · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nope, sorry -unlike peanut butter and chocolate, downloads don't mix with bookshelves.

    Interestingly, they can both be measured in the same units. (meaning Libraries of Congress, of course.)

  4. COBOL Zombies by cjfs · · Score: 2, Funny

    He's just welcoming our new Zombie Overlords

    .

  5. Higher Order Perl by russlar · · Score: 2, Funny

    All programs written in higher-order perl start with the following line:
    #!/usr/bong/perl

    --
    Anybody want my mod points?
  6. too late by museumpeace · · Score: 2, Funny

    I bought the book quite a while back. And I wouldn't expect them to publish it with the title it should have: how to write perl so well you look like you are using python.

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  7. Re:How *do* they do that? by tlhIngan · · Score: 2, Funny

    Funny, I would have thought it sat on a hard drive or a usb key or something ...

    "You have downloads on my bookshelf!"
    "You have bookshelves on my downloads!"

    Nope, sorry -unlike peanut butter and chocolate, downloads don't mix with bookshelves.

    Thankfully, there are many devices in this nice modern day and age that can convert downloads into books, and likewise, there are devices that can take books and turn them into downloads. I think someone created a whole movement around the former device when he couldn't get it to work "properly", and a large company got sued when they did the latter, even though they made it very difficult to get whole books that way.