[PLUG] Reading / meet the author / book signing for "Higher-Order Perl"

[mjd-list-plug2@plover.com (Mark Dominus)]

On Thursday night the University of Pennsylvania Bookstore will be
hosting a reading and signing of my recent book "Higher-Order Perl".

"Higher-Order Perl" is about applying functional programming
techniques from the academic research world to the kind of engineering
tasks that programmers need to do all the time.  The examples are in
Perl, a language that is mostly known as a Unix system administration
utility and for writing interactive programs to run on the Web.  So
the book really is about getting the fancy academic stuff to work in a
down-and-dirty programming environment, and talks about when and why
you would want to do that.

Randal Schwartz, the author of "Learning Perl", says:

        It's a great book ... Definitely going to go on my serious
        re-reading list.

Peter Norvig, Director of Search Quality at Google, says:

        There are lots of books that teach you new Perl modules or
        techniques. This book goes beyond that and teaches a new way
        to think about Perl programming.


So if you've been tinkering in Perl for a while, here is your
opportunity to advance your Perl programming to the next level.

        Thursday, October 27
        6:00 PM

        Penn Bookstore
        3601 Walnut Street

I hope to see you there!


Here's the official announcement:

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Penn Bookstore
3601 Walnut Street * Philadelphia * 215.898.7595 www.upenn.edu/bookstore


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Christine Hibbard

Functional Programming Techniques in Perl Revealed

Penn Perl programmer Mark Jason Dominus will present "Higher-Order
Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs" on October 27 at 6:00 p.m.

Perl is a UNIX-based scripting language that is often used on the one
of the most popular languages for writing CGI scripts for web pages.
In "Higher-Order Perl," Mark Jason Dominus illuminates Perl techniques
that resemble Lisp far more than C. By learning Dominus's techniques,
a programmer can accomplish things in Perl that can't be done any
other way and automate tasks that would be a struggle to handle
conventionally.

According to Sean M. Burke, Leading Programmer of the Comprehensive
Perl Network, " 'Higher-Order Perl' is the most exciting, most
clearly-written, most comprehensive and most forward-looking
programming book I've reading the last ten years. It's your map to the
future of programming in any language."

Mark Jason Dominus is the author of the Tie::File, Test::Template and
Memoize modules, the perlreftut man page, and is an occasional
contributor the the Perl core. Dominus won the 2001 Larry Wall Award
for Practical Utility.

All events at the Penn Bookstore are free and open to the public.
A great selection of books is just the beginning...

Christine Hibbard
Community Relations and Events Coordinator
Penn Bookstore
3601 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-898-7595
chibbard@pobox.upenn.edu
www.upenn.edu/bookstore

We extend a 10% discount to Barnes & Noble "Member Card" members on 
general reading titles,  music, movies, Penn insignia gift items and 
Cafe purchases.


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