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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs (ISBN 1-55860-701-3), is a book about the Perl programming language written by Mark Jason Dominus 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.
A few months ago I was visiting my mother, and she said that as a child I had always wanted to learn everything, and that it took me a long time to realize that you couldn't learn everything. I got really angry, and I shouted "I'm not done yet!"
The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.
I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.
American Stance: Everything not forbidden is permitted. Prussian Stance: Everything not permitted is forbidden.
In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion.
Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.