Mark Jason Dominus is a Perl guru -- it would probably be a surprise to see him write it in anything other than Perl; among other things, he wrote the book, "Hi

Mark Jason Dominus is a Perl guru -- it would probably be a surprise to see him write it in anything other than Perl; among other things, he wrote the book, "Higher Order Perl", which is basically SICP for Perl or, as he describes it: "Higher-Order Perl is about functional programming techniques in Perl. It's about how to write functions that can modify and manufacture other functions." (The book is available for free online, btw: http://hop.perl.plover.com/ http://hop.perl.plover.com/ There's a link there to a page translating the concepts into Javascript, btw -- there's a similar link for Ruby but it doesn't work, nor does a revised link -- changes the word "category" to "categories" in the URL -- that I found Googling, but this does: https://web.archive.org/web/20130315020240/http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/higherorder_ruby https://web.archive.org/web/20130315020240/http://blog.grayp... )