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Mark Jason Dominus' "Higher Order Perl" was published in March 2005, so almost THREE years before Crockford's book and it already deals with the functional programming style in Perl.

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A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

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