By Marty Pauley (maokt) from Shibuya.pm
Date: Saturday, 16 January 2010 16:00
Duration: 40 minutes
Target audience: Advanced
Tags: drugs functional paradigm
I'll talk about functional programming techniques.
As many have said before, Perl has functional features, although maybe they're not as elegant as they could be. Still, they provide a powerful alternative to the overused object orientation paradigm.
There are also some common functional features that Perl(5) doesn't have (as standard). Currying and monads are two interesting topics that I'll cover.