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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/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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