''Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs'' (), is a book about the Perl programming language written by Mark Jason Dominus with the goal to teach

Perl Perl is a family of two high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages. "Perl" refers to Perl 5, but from 2000 to 2019 it also referred to its redesigned "sister language", Perl 6, before the latter's name was offici ...

programmers with a strong C and

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background how to use techniques with roots in

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languages like

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that are available in Perl as well. In June 2013, a Chinese-language edition was published by China Machine Press. The full text of ''Higher Order Perl'' is available online in a variation of the

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format (MOD) and in PDF.

Reception

The book has received reviews from sources including ''

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'', ''

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'', ''Weblabor'', ''

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'', and ''The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics''.

References

External links

* {{Perl Books about Perl 2005 books