New Programming Book I Must Have:
M. J. Dominus’s forthcoming Higher-Order Perl (via Xoltar) demonstrates that the leading lights of Perl are interested in the power of functional programming, even as Guido gives it the finger (see also Xoltar on that topic.)
I have always found functional programming fascinating. I’m no master of it, but I do have a reputation among people who code perl with me for having an unnatural fondness for ending functions with:
return sub {...