• Title: Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs
• Authors Mark Jason Dominus
• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (March 28, 2005)
• Paperback: 600 pages
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558607013
• ISBN-13: 978-1558607019
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Book Description

This is a book written with the goal to teach Perl programmers with a strong C and Unix background how to use techniques with roots in functional programming languages like Lisp that are available in Perl as well, but less known.

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 the most powerful of these techniques is writing functions that manufacture or modify other functions. For example, instead of writing ten similar functions, a programmer can write a general pattern or framework that can then create the functions as needed according to the pattern.

For several years Mark Jason Dominus has worked to apply functional programming techniques to Perl. Now Mark brings these flexible programming methods that he has successfully taught in numerous tutorials and training sessions to a wider audience.

• Introduces powerful programming methods - new to most Perl programmers - that were previously the domain of computer scientists
• Gradually builds up confidence by describing techniques of progressive sophistication
• Shows how to improve everyday programs and includes numerous engaging code examples to illustrate the methods

• Mark Jason Dominus has been programming in Perl professionally since 1992, when he was a UNIX sysadmin with the University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Sciences. Mark is an occasional contributor to the Perl Core, and is the author of the standard perlreftut man page as well as the Tie::File, Text::Template, and Memoize modules. From 1999-2001, Mark was the managing editor of the www.perl.com website. He was also a columnist for The Perl Journal for several years.

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