Higher-Order Perl

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.^[1]

Higher-Order Perl

The cover of Higher-Order Perl
Author	Mark Jason Dominus
Cover artist	Yvo Riezebos
Language	English, Chinese
Subject	Computer programming, Perl
Published	2005 Morgan Kaufmann
Publication place	USA
Media type	Print, MOD, PDF
Pages	600
ISBN	1-55860-701-3
OCLC	56086063
Dewey Decimal	005.13/3 22
LC Class	QA76.73.P22 D56 2005

In June 2013, a Chinese-language edition was published by China Machine Press.^[2] The full text of Higher Order Perl is available online in a variation of the Plain Old Documentation format (MOD) and in PDF.^[3][4]

Reception

The book has received reviews from sources including ACM Computing Reviews,^[5] Linux Journal,^[6] Weblabor,^[7] Dr. Dobb's Journal,^[8] and The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics.^[9]