Title: Great Perl-Fu
Product review: I'm mostly a Lisp hacker and don't do much with Perl, so I don't know why this book caught my eye, but I'm glad it did. It shows you how to use Perl for all kinds of powerful (and sometimes mind-blowing) tricks which are commonplace in functional languages, but which it never occurred to me to attempt in Perl. Like an earlier reviewer pointed out, this is far from the best book out there on functional programming; if that's solely what you're interested in, buy SICP. It is, however, by far the most interesting book I've ever seen on Perl. After I finish reading it, I'm going to give it away to someone who still thinks in Java.
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