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Mark Jason Dominus

(1969) Programmer

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Mark Jason Dominus is a programmer, best known for Higher-Order Perl.

Quick Facts About Mark Jason Dominus

Born: April 2, 1969
Profession: Programmer
Notable works: Higher-Order Perl

About Mark Jason Dominus

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.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Mark Jason Dominus

A few months ago I was visiting my mother, and she said that as a child I had always wanted to learn…

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Angry

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I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

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Book

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The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.

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Appropriate

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American Stance: Everything not forbidden is permitted. Prussian Stance: Everything not permitted is forbidden.

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Forbidden

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In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now…

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Closure

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Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.

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Courses

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