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=head1 NAME

perlbook - Books about and related to Perl

=head1 DESCRIPTION

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/ ).

=head2 The most popular books

The major reference book on Perl, written by the creator of Perl, is
I<Programming Perl>:

=over 4

=item I<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/

=back

The Ram is a cookbook with hundreds of examples of using Perl to
accomplish specific tasks:

=over 4

=item I<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/

=back

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:

=over 4

=item I<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

=back

The tutorial started in the Llama continues in the Alpaca, which
introduces the intermediate features of references, data structures,
object-oriented programming, and modules:

=over 4

=item I<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/

=back

=head2 References

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

=over 4

=item I<Perl 5 Pocket Reference>

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

=item I<Perl Debugger Pocket Reference>

	by Richard Foley
	ISBN 978-0-596-00503-0 [1st edition January 2004]
	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005030/

=item I<Regular Expression Pocket Reference>

	by Tony Stubblebine
	ISBN 978-0-596-51427-3 [July 2007]
	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514273/

=back

=head2 Tutorials

=over 4

=item I<Beginning Perl>

	by James Lee
	ISBN 1-59059-391-X [3rd edition April 2010]
	http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430227931

=item I<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

=item I<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

=item I<Mastering Perl>

	by brian d foy
	ISBN 978-0-596-10206-7 [1st edition July 2007]
	http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527242

=item I<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/

=back

=head2 Task-Oriented

=over 4

=item I<Writing Perl Modules for CPAN>

	by Sam Tregar
	ISBN 1-59059-018-X [1st edition August 2002]
	http://www.apress.com/book/view/159059018X

=item I<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


=item I<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

=item I<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

=back

=head2 Special Topics

=over 4

=item I<Regular Expressions Cookbook>

	by Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan
	ISBN 978-0-596-52069-4 [May 2009]
	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520694

=item I<Programming the Perl DBI>

	by Tim Bunce and Alligator Descartes
	ISBN 978-1-56592-699-8 [February 2000]
	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565926998

=item I<Perl Best Practices>

	by Damian Conway
	ISBN: 978-0-596-00173-5 [1st edition July 2005]
	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596001735

=item I<Higher-Order Perl>

	by Mark-Jason Dominus
	ISBN: 1-55860-701-3 [1st edition March 2005]
	http://hop.perl.plover.com/

=item I<Mastering Regular Expressions>

	by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
	ISBN 978-0-596-52812-6 [3rd edition August 2006]
	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528126

=item I<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

=item I<Perl Template Toolkit>

	by Darren Chamberlain, Dave Cross, and Andy Wardley
	ISBN 978-0-596-00476-7 [December 2003]
	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004767

=item I<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/

=item I<Data Munging with Perl>

	by Dave Cross
	ISBN 1-930110-00-6 [1st edition 2001]
	http://www.manning.com/cross

=item I<Mastering Perl/Tk>

	by Steve Lidie and Nancy Walsh
	ISBN 978-1-56592-716-2 [1st edition January 2002]
	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565927162

=item I<Extending and Embedding Perl>

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

=item I<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

=back

=head2 Free (as in beer) books

Some of these books are available as free downloads.

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

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

=head2 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:

=over 4

=item I<Programming Pearls>

	by Jon Bentley
	ISBN 978-0-201-65788-3 [2 edition, October 1999]

=item I<More Programming Pearls>

	by Jon Bentley
	ISBN 0-201-11889-0 [January 1988]

=back

=head2 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.

=head2 Get your book listed

If your Perl book isn't listed and you think it should be, let us know.

=cut
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a0d0e21e LW	1	=head1 NAME
a0d0e21e LW	2
ab098d01	3	perlbook - Books about and related to Perl
a0d0e21e LW	4
	5	=head1 DESCRIPTION
	6
ab098d01	7	There are many books on Perl and Perl-related. A few of these are
	8	good, some are OK, but many aren't worth your money. There is a list
	9	of these books, some with extensive reviews, at http://books.perl.org/
	10	. We list some of the books here, and while listing a book implies our
	11	endorsement, don't think that not including a book means anything.
	12
	13	Most of these books are available online through Safari Books Online
	14	( http://safaribooksonline.com/ ).
	15
	16	=head2 The most popular books
	17
	18	The major reference book on Perl, written by the creator of Perl, is
	19	I<Programming Perl>:
	20
	21	=over 4
	22
	23	=item I<Programming Perl> (the "Camel Book"):
	24
	25	by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant
	26	ISBN 978-0-596-00027-1 [3rd edition July 2000]
	27	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596000271/
	28
	29	=back
	30
	31	The Ram is a cookbook with hundreds of examples of using Perl to
	32	accomplish specific tasks:
	33
	34	=over 4
	35
	36	=item I<The Perl Cookbook> (the "Ram Book"):
	37
	38	by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington,
	39	with Foreword by Larry Wall
	40	ISBN 978-0-596-00313-5 [2nd Edition August 2003]
	41	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003135/
	42
	43	=back
	44
	45	If you want to learn the basics of Perl, you might start with the
	46	Llama book, which assumes that you already know a little about
	47	programming:
	48
	49	=over 4
	50
	51	=item I<Learning Perl> (the "Llama Book")
	52
	53	by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy
	54	ISBN 978-0-596-52011-3 [5th edition June 2008]
	55	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520113
	56
	57	=back
	58
	59	The tutorial started in the Llama continues in the Alpaca, which
	60	introduces the intermediate features of references, data structures,
	61	object-oriented programming, and modules:
	62
	63	=over 4
	64
	65	=item I<Intermediate Perl> (the "Alpaca Book")
	66
	67	by Randal L. Schwartz and brian d foy, with Tom Phoenix
	68	foreword by Damian Conway
	69	ISBN 978-0-596-00478-1 [1st edition March 2006]
	70	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004781/
71
72	=back
73
74	=head2 References
75
76	You might want to keep these desktop references close by your keyboard:
77
78	=over 4
79
80	=item I<Perl 5 Pocket Reference>
81
82	by Johan Vromans
83	ISBN 978-0-596-00374-6 [4th edition July 2002]
84	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003746/
85
86	=item I<Perl Debugger Pocket Reference>
87
88	by Richard Foley
89	ISBN 978-0-596-00503-0 [1st edition January 2004]
90	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005030/
91
92	=item I<Regular Expression Pocket Reference>
93
94	by Tony Stubblebine
95	ISBN 978-0-596-51427-3 [July 2007]
96	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514273/
97
98	=back
99
100	=head2 Tutorials
101
102	=over 4
103
104	=item I<Beginning Perl>
105
106	by James Lee
107	ISBN 1-59059-391-X [3rd edition April 2010]
108	http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430227931
109
110	=item I<Learning Perl>
111
112	by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy
113	ISBN 978-0-596-52010-6 [5th edition June 2008]
114	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520106
115
116	=item I<Intermediate Perl> (the "Alpaca Book")
117
118	by Randal L. Schwartz and brian d foy, with Tom Phoenix
119	foreword by Damian Conway
120	ISBN 0-596-10206-2 [1st edition March 2006]
121	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596102067
122
123	=item I<Mastering Perl>
124
125	by brian d foy
126	ISBN 978-0-596-10206-7 [1st edition July 2007]
127	http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527242
128
129	=item I<Effective Perl Programming>
130
131	by Joseph N. Hall, Joshua A. McAdams, brian d foy
132	ISBN 0-321-49694-9 [2nd edition 2010]
133	http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/
134
135	=back
136
137	=head2 Task-Oriented
138
139	=over 4
140
141	=item I<Writing Perl Modules for CPAN>
142
143	by Sam Tregar
144	ISBN 1-59059-018-X [1st edition August 2002]
145	http://www.apress.com/book/view/159059018X
146
147	=item I<The Perl Cookbook>
148
149	by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington
150	with foreword by Larry Wall
151	ISBN 1-56592-243-3 [2nd edition August 2003]
152	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003135
153
154
155	=item I<Automating System Administration with Perl>
156
157	by David N. Blank-Edelman
158	ISBN 978-0-596-00639-6 [2nd edition May 2009]
159	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006396
160
161	=item I<Real World SQL Server Administration with Perl>
162
163	by Linchi Shea
164	ISBN 1-59059-097-X [1st edition July 2003]
165	http://www.apress.com/book/view/159059097X
166
167	=back
168
169	=head2 Special Topics
170
171	=over 4
172
173	=item I<Regular Expressions Cookbook>
174
175	by Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan
176	ISBN 978-0-596-52069-4 [May 2009]
177	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520694
178
179	=item I<Programming the Perl DBI>
180
181	by Tim Bunce and Alligator Descartes
182	ISBN 978-1-56592-699-8 [February 2000]
183	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565926998
184
185	=item I<Perl Best Practices>
186
187	by Damian Conway
188	ISBN: 978-0-596-00173-5 [1st edition July 2005]
189	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596001735
190
191	=item I<Higher-Order Perl>
192
193	by Mark-Jason Dominus
194	ISBN: 1-55860-701-3 [1st edition March 2005]
195	http://hop.perl.plover.com/
196
197	=item I<Mastering Regular Expressions>
198
199	by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
200	ISBN 978-0-596-52812-6 [3rd edition August 2006]
201	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528126
202
203	=item I<Network Programming with Perl>
204
205	by Lincoln Stein
206	ISBN 0-201-61571-1 [1st edition 2001]
207	http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Network-Programming-with-Perl/9780201615715.page
208
209	=item I<Perl Template Toolkit>
210
211	by Darren Chamberlain, Dave Cross, and Andy Wardley
212	ISBN 978-0-596-00476-7 [December 2003]
213	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004767
214
215	=item I<Object Oriented Perl>
216
217	by Damian Conway
218	with foreword by Randal L. Schwartz
219	ISBN 1-884777-79-1 [1st edition August 1999]
220	http://www.manning.com/conway/
221
222	=item I<Data Munging with Perl>
223
224	by Dave Cross
225	ISBN 1-930110-00-6 [1st edition 2001]
226	http://www.manning.com/cross
227
228	=item I<Mastering Perl/Tk>
229
230	by Steve Lidie and Nancy Walsh
231	ISBN 978-1-56592-716-2 [1st edition January 2002]
232	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565927162
233
234	=item I<Extending and Embedding Perl>
235
236	by Tim Jenness and Simon Cozens
237	ISBN 1-930110-82-0 [1st edition August 2002]
238	http://www.manning.com/jenness
239
240	=item I<Pro Perl Debugging>
241
242	by Richard Foley with Andy Lester
243	ISBN 1-59059-454-1 [1st edition July 2005]
244	http://www.apress.com/book/view/1590594541
245
246	=back
247
248	=head2 Free (as in beer) books
249
250	Some of these books are available as free downloads.
251
252	I<Higher-Order Perl>: http://hop.perl.plover.com/
253
254	I<Writing Perl Modules for CPAN>: http://www.apress.com/resource/freeebook/9781590590188
255
256	=head2 Other interesting, non-Perl books
257
258	You might notice several familiar Perl concepts in this collection of
259	ACM columns from Jon Bentley. The similarity to the title of the major
260	Perl book (which came later) is not completely accidental:
261
262	=over 4
263
264	=item I<Programming Pearls>
265
266	by Jon Bentley
267	ISBN 978-0-201-65788-3 [2 edition, October 1999]
268
269	=item I<More Programming Pearls>
270
271	by Jon Bentley
272	ISBN 0-201-11889-0 [January 1988]
273
274	=back
275
276	=head2 A note on freshness
277
278	Each version of Perl comes with the documentation that was current at
279	the time of release. This poses a problem for content such as book
280	lists. There are probably very nice books published after this list
281	was included in your Perl release, and you can check the latest
282	released version at http://perldoc.perl.org/perlbook.html .
283
284	Some of the books we've listed appear almost ancient in internet
285	scale, but we've included those books because they still describe the
286	current way of doing things. Not everything in Perl changes every day.
287	Many of the beginner-level books, too, go over basic features and
288	techniques that are still valid today. In general though, we try to
289	limit this list to books published in the past five years.
290
291	=head2 Get your book listed
292
fa3a75c5	293	If your Perl book isn't listed and you think it should be, let us know.
ab098d01	294
ab098d01	295	=cut