On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 11:24:22 -0500 Mark Allen via Houston <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'd like to propose this talk for September's Perl meeting- > > How Functional Programming Made Me Better at Perl It looks like we have two proposals for a presentation next month. Julian Brown had suggested "Read Copy Update in the Linux Kernel" as a topic earlier and I had not gotten a chance to post it yet. Now, Mark is suggesting a new talk. You guys want to work out who goes first, and we can push the other talk to October? G. Wade > > Although most people treat Perl as an imperative language, it has > always been possible to use functional programming idioms in Perl 5. > Vastly better described by Mark Jason Dominius in what I consider to > be one of the best books about programming (in general, not just > about Perl) Higher Order Perl (full text can be found here: > http://hop.perl.plover.com) I will illustrate many ways that > functional programming constructions bring great power and > conciseness to your Perl code. > > Thanks! > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ -- You should never hand someone a gun unless you're sure where they'll point it. -- Jeffrey Sinclair in "By Any Means Necessary" _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/
