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perlbook - Books about and related to Perl
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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.
Most of these books are available online through Safari Books Online (
http://safaribooksonline.com/ ).
The most popular books
The major reference book on Perl, written by the creator of Perl, is
Programming Perl:
Programming Perl (the "Camel Book"):
by Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall with Jon Orwant
ISBN 978-0-596-00492-7 [4th edition February 2012]
ISBN 978-1-4493-9890-3 [ebook]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004927
The Ram is a cookbook with hundreds of examples of using Perl to
accomplish specific tasks:
The Perl Cookbook (the "Ram Book"):
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/
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:
Learning Perl (the "Llama Book")
by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy
ISBN 978-1-4493-0358-7 [6th edition June 2011]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920018452
The tutorial started in the Llama continues in the Alpaca, which
introduces the intermediate features of references, data structures,
object-oriented programming, and modules:
Intermediate Perl (the "Alpaca Book")
by Randal L. Schwartz and brian d foy, with Tom Phoenix
foreword by Damian Conway
ISBN 978-1-4493-9309-0 [2nd edition August 2012]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920012689/
References
You might want to keep these desktop references close by your keyboard:
Perl 5 Pocket Reference
by Johan Vromans
ISBN 978-1-4493-0370-9 [5th edition July 2011]
ISBN 978-1-4493-0813-1 [ebook]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920018476/
Perl Debugger Pocket Reference
by Richard Foley
ISBN 978-0-596-00503-0 [1st edition January 2004]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005030/
Regular Expression Pocket Reference
by Tony Stubblebine
ISBN 978-0-596-51427-3 [July 2007]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514273/
Tutorials
Beginning Perl
by James Lee
ISBN 1-59059-391-X [3rd edition April 2010]
http://www.apress.com/9781430227939
Learning Perl
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
Intermediate Perl (the "Alpaca Book")
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
Mastering Perl
by brian d foy
ISBN 978-0-596-10206-7 [1st edition July 2007]
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527242
Effective Perl Programming
by Joseph N. Hall, Joshua A. McAdams, brian d foy
ISBN 0-321-49694-9 [2nd edition 2010]
http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/
Task-Oriented
Writing Perl Modules for CPAN
by Sam Tregar
ISBN 1-59059-018-X [1st edition August 2002]
http://www.apress.com/9781590590188
The Perl Cookbook
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
Automating System Administration with Perl
by David N. Blank-Edelman
ISBN 978-0-596-00639-6 [2nd edition May 2009]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006396
Real World SQL Server Administration with Perl
by Linchi Shea
ISBN 1-59059-097-X [1st edition July 2003]
http://www.apress.com/9781590590973
Special Topics
Regular Expressions Cookbook
by Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan
ISBN 978-0-596-52069-4 [May 2009]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520694
Programming the Perl DBI
by Tim Bunce and Alligator Descartes
ISBN 978-1-56592-699-8 [February 2000]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565926998
Perl Best Practices
by Damian Conway
ISBN: 978-0-596-00173-5 [1st edition July 2005]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596001735
Higher-Order Perl
by Mark-Jason Dominus
ISBN: 1-55860-701-3 [1st edition March 2005]
http://hop.perl.plover.com/
Mastering Regular Expressions
by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
ISBN 978-0-596-52812-6 [3rd edition August 2006]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528126
Network Programming with Perl
by Lincoln Stein
ISBN 0-201-61571-1 [1st edition 2001]
http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Network-Programming-with-Perl/9780201615715.page
Perl Template Toolkit
by Darren Chamberlain, Dave Cross, and Andy Wardley
ISBN 978-0-596-00476-7 [December 2003]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004767
Object Oriented Perl
by Damian Conway
with foreword by Randal L. Schwartz
ISBN 1-884777-79-1 [1st edition August 1999]
http://www.manning.com/conway/
Data Munging with Perl
by Dave Cross
ISBN 1-930110-00-6 [1st edition 2001]
http://www.manning.com/cross
Mastering Perl/Tk
by Steve Lidie and Nancy Walsh
ISBN 978-1-56592-716-2 [1st edition January 2002]
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565927162
Extending and Embedding Perl
by Tim Jenness and Simon Cozens
ISBN 1-930110-82-0 [1st edition August 2002]
http://www.manning.com/jenness
Pro Perl Debugging
by Richard Foley with Andy Lester
ISBN 1-59059-454-1 [1st edition July 2005]
http://www.apress.com/9781590594544
Free (as in beer) books
Some of these books are available as free downloads.
Higher-Order Perl: http://hop.perl.plover.com/
Other interesting, non-Perl books
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:
Programming Pearls
by Jon Bentley
ISBN 978-0-201-65788-3 [2 edition, October 1999]
More Programming Pearls
by Jon Bentley
ISBN 0-201-11889-0 [January 1988]
A note on freshness
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 .
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.
Get your book listed
If your Perl book isn't listed and you think it should be, let us know.
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