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2.11: Perl Books

A number of books on Perl and/or CGI programming are available. 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/ . If you don't see your book listed here, you can
write to perlfaq-workers(a)perl.org .

The incontestably definitive 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 0-596-00027-8 [3rd edition July 2000]
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl3/
(English, translations to several languages are also available)

The companion volume to the Camel containing thousands of real-world
examples, mini-tutorials, and complete programs is:

The Perl Cookbook (the "Ram Book"):
by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington,
with Foreword by Larry Wall
ISBN 0-596-00313-7 [2nd Edition August 2003]
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlckbk2/

If you're already a seasoned programmer, then the Camel Book might
suffice for you to learn Perl. If you're not, check out the Llama book:

Learning Perl
by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy
ISBN 0-596-10105-8 [4th edition July 2005]
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnperl4/

And for more advanced information on writing larger programs, presented
in the same style as the Llama book, continue your education with the
Alpaca book:

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://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lrnperlorm/

Addison-Wesley ( http://www.awlonline.com/ ) and Manning (
http://www.manning.com/ ) are also publishers of some fine Perl books
such as *Object Oriented Programming with Perl* by Damian Conway and
*Network Programming with Perl* by Lincoln Stein.

An excellent technical book discounter is Bookpool at
http://www.bookpool.com/ where a 30% discount or more is not unusual.

What follows is a list of the books that the FAQ authors found
personally useful. Your mileage may (but, we hope, probably won't) vary.

Recommended books on (or mostly on) Perl follow.

References
Programming Perl
by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant
ISBN 0-596-00027-8 [3rd edition July 2000]
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl3/

Perl 5 Pocket Reference
by Johan Vromans
ISBN 0-596-00374-9 [4th edition July 2002]
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlpr4/

Tutorials
Beginning Perl
by James Lee
ISBN 1-59059-391-X [2nd edition August 2004]
http://apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=344

Elements of Programming with Perl
by Andrew L. Johnson
ISBN 1-884777-80-5 [1st edition October 1999]
http://www.manning.com/johnson/

Learning Perl
by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy
ISBN 0-596-52010-7 [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://www.oreilly.com/catalog/intermediateperl/

Mastering Perl
by brian d foy
ISBN 0-596-52724-1 [1st edition July 2007]
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527242/

Task-Oriented
Writing Perl Modules for CPAN
by Sam Tregar
ISBN 1-59059-018-X [1st edition August 2002]
http://apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=14

The Perl Cookbook
by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington
with foreword by Larry Wall
ISBN 1-56592-243-3 [1st edition August 1998]
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cookbook/

Effective Perl Programming
by Joseph Hall
ISBN 0-201-41975-0 [1st edition 1998]
http://www.awl.com/

Real World SQL Server Administration with Perl
by Linchi Shea
ISBN 1-59059-097-X [1st edition July 2003]
http://apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=171

Special Topics
Perl Best Practices
by Damian Conway
ISBN: 0-596-00173-8 [1st edition July 2005]
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlbp/

Higher Order Perl
by Mark-Jason Dominus
ISBN: 1558607013 [1st edition March 2005]
http://hop.perl.plover.com/

Perl 6 Now: The Core Ideas Illustrated with Perl 5
by Scott Walters
ISBN 1-59059-395-2 [1st edition December 2004]
http://apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=355

Mastering Regular Expressions
by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
ISBN 0-596-00289-0 [2nd edition July 2002]
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex2/

Network Programming with Perl
by Lincoln Stein
ISBN 0-201-61571-1 [1st edition 2001]
http://www.awlonline.com/

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 1-56592-716-8 [1st edition January 2002]
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mastperltk/

Extending and Embedding Perl
by Tim Jenness and Simon Cozens
ISBN 1-930110-82-0 [1st edition August 2002]
http://www.manning.com/jenness

Perl Debugger Pocket Reference
by Richard Foley
ISBN 0-596-00503-2 [1st edition January 2004]
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perldebugpr/

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



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