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Functional programming in Perl
started 1/11/2002; 3:59:15 AM - last post 1/15/2002; 9:28:18 AM

Ehud Lamm - Functional programming in Perl

1/11/2002; 3:59:15 AM (reads: 1140, responses: 2)

Functional programming in Perl

This series of articles on developerWorks comprises a complete guide to better programming in Perl. In this fourth installment, Teodor introduces functional programming...

Better programming and functional programming? Would you believe there's a connection?

Functional programming (FP) can be an approach, a solution, or a religion. I prefer it to be anything but a religion, because it should be just one more tool in a programmer's arsenal.

With this I agree.

One of the exercises prompts the reader to read about Haskell. This starts to sound like a meme

Posted to functional by Ehud Lamm on 1/11/02; 4:01:40 AM

Frank Atanassow - Re: Functional programming in Perl

1/15/2002; 8:24:45 AM (reads: 657, responses: 1)

Here is yet another recent mention of Haskell in "mainstream hacker media":

XSLT, Perl, Haskell, & a word on language design

Ehud Lamm - Re: Functional programming in Perl

1/15/2002; 9:28:18 AM (reads: 719, responses: 0)

If this continues will need a local version of blogdex...