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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 Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant
		   ISBN 978-0-596-00027-1  [3rd edition July 2000]
		   http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596000271/

       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 978-0-596-52011-3 [5th edition June 2008]
		   http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520113

       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 978-0-596-00478-1 [1st edition March 2006]
		   http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004781/

   References
       You might want to keep these desktop references close by your keyboard:

       Perl 5 Pocket Reference
		   by Johan Vromans
		   ISBN 978-0-596-00374-6 [4th edition July 2002]
		   http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003746/

       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/book/view/1430227931

       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/book/view/159059018X

       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/book/view/159059097X

   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/book/view/1590594541

   Free (as in beer) books
       Some of these books are available as free downloads.

       Higher-Order Perl: http://hop.perl.plover.com/

       Writing Perl Modules for CPAN: http://www.apress.com/resource/freeebook/9781590590188

   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.

perl v5.14.2							    2011-09-26							       PERLBOOK(1)