15 Feb 2006 mchirico   » (Journeyer)

Recommended Reading

"Higher Order Perl: transforming Programs with Programs", by Mark Jason Dominus.

Mark put a lot of time into this book, and it shows. It was 5 years in the making, with free versions passed out for review. Examples can be found here (scroll down the page) .

Mark plans to take the book public, in Wiki form.

I would agree that "writing functions that modify other functions" is a very powerful programming technique found in Lisp, Mathematica, Java, and C++ to name a few languages, but it's not generally associated with Perl. Well, Mark will open your eyes here. The book is fun to read. It has depth; however, it is not written like a text book. Compare it to hacking with friends rather than sitting in a CS class.

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