| =head1 NAME |
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| perlbook - Books about and related to Perl |
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| =head1 DESCRIPTION |
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| There are many books on Perl and Perl-related. A few of these are |
| good, some are OK, but many aren't worth your money. There is a list |
| of these books, some with extensive reviews, at http://books.perl.org/ |
| . We list some of the books here, and while listing a book implies our |
| endorsement, don't think that not including a book means anything. |
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| Most of these books are available online through Safari Books Online |
| ( http://safaribooksonline.com/ ). |
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| =head2 The most popular books |
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| The major reference book on Perl, written by the creator of Perl, is |
| I<Programming Perl>: |
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| =over 4 |
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| =item I<Programming Perl> (the "Camel Book"): |
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| by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant |
| ISBN 978-0-596-00027-1 [3rd edition July 2000] |
| http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596000271/ |
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| =back |
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| The Ram is a cookbook with hundreds of examples of using Perl to |
| accomplish specific tasks: |
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| =over 4 |
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| =item I<The Perl Cookbook> (the "Ram Book"): |
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| by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington, |
| with Foreword by Larry Wall |
| ISBN 978-0-596-00313-5 [2nd Edition August 2003] |
| http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003135/ |
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| =back |
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| If you want to learn the basics of Perl, you might start with the |
| Llama book, which assumes that you already know a little about |
| programming: |
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| =over 4 |
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| =item I<Learning Perl> (the "Llama Book") |
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| by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy |
| ISBN 978-0-596-52011-3 [5th edition June 2008] |
| http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520113 |
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| =back |
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| The tutorial started in the Llama continues in the Alpaca, which |
| introduces the intermediate features of references, data structures, |
| object-oriented programming, and modules: |
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| =over 4 |
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| =item I<Intermediate Perl> (the "Alpaca Book") |
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| by Randal L. Schwartz and brian d foy, with Tom Phoenix |
| foreword by Damian Conway |
| ISBN 978-0-596-00478-1 [1st edition March 2006] |
| http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004781/ |
| |
| =back |
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| =head2 References |
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| You might want to keep these desktop references close by your keyboard: |
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| =over 4 |
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| =item I<Perl 5 Pocket Reference> |
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| by Johan Vromans |
| ISBN 978-0-596-00374-6 [4th edition July 2002] |
| http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003746/ |
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| =item I<Perl Debugger Pocket Reference> |
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| by Richard Foley |
| ISBN 978-0-596-00503-0 [1st edition January 2004] |
| http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005030/ |
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| =item I<Regular Expression Pocket Reference> |
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| by Tony Stubblebine |
| ISBN 978-0-596-51427-3 [July 2007] |
| http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514273/ |
| |
| =back |
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| =head2 Tutorials |
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| =over 4 |
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| =item I<Beginning Perl> |
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| by James Lee |
| ISBN 1-59059-391-X [3rd edition April 2010] |
| http://www.apress.com/9781430227939 |
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| =item I<Learning Perl> |
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| by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy |
| ISBN 978-0-596-52010-6 [5th edition June 2008] |
| http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520106 |
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| =item I<Intermediate Perl> (the "Alpaca Book") |
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| by Randal L. Schwartz and brian d foy, with Tom Phoenix |
| foreword by Damian Conway |
| ISBN 0-596-10206-2 [1st edition March 2006] |
| http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596102067 |
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| =item I<Mastering Perl> |
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| by brian d foy |
| ISBN 978-0-596-10206-7 [1st edition July 2007] |
| http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527242 |
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| =item I<Effective Perl Programming> |
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| by Joseph N. Hall, Joshua A. McAdams, brian d foy |
| ISBN 0-321-49694-9 [2nd edition 2010] |
| http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/ |
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| =back |
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| =head2 Task-Oriented |
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| =over 4 |
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| =item I<Writing Perl Modules for CPAN> |
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| by Sam Tregar |
| ISBN 1-59059-018-X [1st edition August 2002] |
| http://www.apress.com/9781590590188 |
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| =item I<The Perl Cookbook> |
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| by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington |
| with foreword by Larry Wall |
| ISBN 1-56592-243-3 [2nd edition August 2003] |
| http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003135 |
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| =item I<Automating System Administration with Perl> |
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| by David N. Blank-Edelman |
| ISBN 978-0-596-00639-6 [2nd edition May 2009] |
| http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006396 |
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| =item I<Real World SQL Server Administration with Perl> |
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| by Linchi Shea |
| ISBN 1-59059-097-X [1st edition July 2003] |
| http://www.apress.com/9781590590973 |
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| =back |
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| =head2 Special Topics |
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| =over 4 |
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| =item I<Regular Expressions Cookbook> |
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| by Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan |
| ISBN 978-0-596-52069-4 [May 2009] |
| http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520694 |
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| =item I<Programming the Perl DBI> |
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| by Tim Bunce and Alligator Descartes |
| ISBN 978-1-56592-699-8 [February 2000] |
| http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565926998 |
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| =item I<Perl Best Practices> |
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| by Damian Conway |
| ISBN: 978-0-596-00173-5 [1st edition July 2005] |
| http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596001735 |
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| =item I<Higher-Order Perl> |
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| by Mark-Jason Dominus |
| ISBN: 1-55860-701-3 [1st edition March 2005] |
| http://hop.perl.plover.com/ |
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| =item I<Mastering Regular Expressions> |
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| by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl |
| ISBN 978-0-596-52812-6 [3rd edition August 2006] |
| http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528126 |
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| =item I<Network Programming with Perl> |
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| by Lincoln Stein |
| ISBN 0-201-61571-1 [1st edition 2001] |
| http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Network-Programming-with-Perl/9780201615715.page |
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| =item I<Perl Template Toolkit> |
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| by Darren Chamberlain, Dave Cross, and Andy Wardley |
| ISBN 978-0-596-00476-7 [December 2003] |
| http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004767 |
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| =item I<Object Oriented Perl> |
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| by Damian Conway |
| with foreword by Randal L. Schwartz |
| ISBN 1-884777-79-1 [1st edition August 1999] |
| http://www.manning.com/conway/ |
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| =item I<Data Munging with Perl> |
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| by Dave Cross |
| ISBN 1-930110-00-6 [1st edition 2001] |
| http://www.manning.com/cross |
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| =item I<Mastering Perl/Tk> |
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| by Steve Lidie and Nancy Walsh |
| ISBN 978-1-56592-716-2 [1st edition January 2002] |
| http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565927162 |
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| =item I<Extending and Embedding Perl> |
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| by Tim Jenness and Simon Cozens |
| ISBN 1-930110-82-0 [1st edition August 2002] |
| http://www.manning.com/jenness |
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| =item I<Pro Perl Debugging> |
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| by Richard Foley with Andy Lester |
| ISBN 1-59059-454-1 [1st edition July 2005] |
| http://www.apress.com/9781590594544 |
| |
| =back |
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| =head2 Free (as in beer) books |
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| Some of these books are available as free downloads. |
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| I<Higher-Order Perl>: http://hop.perl.plover.com/ |
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| =head2 Other interesting, non-Perl books |
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| You might notice several familiar Perl concepts in this collection of |
| ACM columns from Jon Bentley. The similarity to the title of the major |
| Perl book (which came later) is not completely accidental: |
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| =over 4 |
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| =item I<Programming Pearls> |
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| by Jon Bentley |
| ISBN 978-0-201-65788-3 [2 edition, October 1999] |
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| =item I<More Programming Pearls> |
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| by Jon Bentley |
| ISBN 0-201-11889-0 [January 1988] |
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| =back |
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| =head2 A note on freshness |
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| Each version of Perl comes with the documentation that was current at |
| the time of release. This poses a problem for content such as book |
| lists. There are probably very nice books published after this list |
| was included in your Perl release, and you can check the latest |
| released version at http://perldoc.perl.org/perlbook.html . |
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| Some of the books we've listed appear almost ancient in internet |
| scale, but we've included those books because they still describe the |
| current way of doing things. Not everything in Perl changes every day. |
| Many of the beginner-level books, too, go over basic features and |
| techniques that are still valid today. In general though, we try to |
| limit this list to books published in the past five years. |
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| =head2 Get your book listed |
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| If your Perl book isn't listed and you think it should be, let us know. |
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| =cut |