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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 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

=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 978-1-4493-0358-7 [6th edition June 2011]
	http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920018452

=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 978-1-4493-9309-0 [2nd edition August 2012]
	http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920012689/

=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 978-1-4493-0370-9 [5th edition July 2011]
	ISBN 978-1-4493-0813-1 [ebook]
	http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920018476/

=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/9781430227939

=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/9781590590188

=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/9781590590973

=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/9781590594544

=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/

=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
Commit	Line	Data
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
1b60576f FC	25	by Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall with Jon Orwant
	26	ISBN 978-0-596-00492-7 [4th edition February 2012]
	27	ISBN 978-1-4493-9890-3 [ebook]
	28	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004927
ab098d01	29
	30	=back
	31
	32	The Ram is a cookbook with hundreds of examples of using Perl to
	33	accomplish specific tasks:
	34
	35	=over 4
	36
	37	=item I<The Perl Cookbook> (the "Ram Book"):
	38
	39	by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington,
	40	with Foreword by Larry Wall
	41	ISBN 978-0-596-00313-5 [2nd Edition August 2003]
	42	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003135/
	43
	44	=back
	45
	46	If you want to learn the basics of Perl, you might start with the
	47	Llama book, which assumes that you already know a little about
	48	programming:
	49
	50	=over 4
	51
	52	=item I<Learning Perl> (the "Llama Book")
	53
	54	by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy
1b60576f FC	55	ISBN 978-1-4493-0358-7 [6th edition June 2011]
1b60576f FC	56	http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920018452
ab098d01	57
	58	=back
	59
	60	The tutorial started in the Llama continues in the Alpaca, which
	61	introduces the intermediate features of references, data structures,
	62	object-oriented programming, and modules:
	63
	64	=over 4
	65
	66	=item I<Intermediate Perl> (the "Alpaca Book")
	67
	68	by Randal L. Schwartz and brian d foy, with Tom Phoenix
	69	foreword by Damian Conway
1b60576f FC	70	ISBN 978-1-4493-9309-0 [2nd edition August 2012]
1b60576f FC	71	http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920012689/
ab098d01	72
	73	=back
	74
	75	=head2 References
	76
	77	You might want to keep these desktop references close by your keyboard:
	78
	79	=over 4
	80
	81	=item I<Perl 5 Pocket Reference>
	82
	83	by Johan Vromans
1b60576f FC	84	ISBN 978-1-4493-0370-9 [5th edition July 2011]
	85	ISBN 978-1-4493-0813-1 [ebook]
	86	http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920018476/
ab098d01	87
	88	=item I<Perl Debugger Pocket Reference>
	89
	90	by Richard Foley
	91	ISBN 978-0-596-00503-0 [1st edition January 2004]
	92	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005030/
	93
	94	=item I<Regular Expression Pocket Reference>
	95
	96	by Tony Stubblebine
	97	ISBN 978-0-596-51427-3 [July 2007]
	98	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514273/
	99
	100	=back
	101
	102	=head2 Tutorials
	103
	104	=over 4
	105
	106	=item I<Beginning Perl>
	107
	108	by James Lee
	109	ISBN 1-59059-391-X [3rd edition April 2010]
464a08e7	110	http://www.apress.com/9781430227939
ab098d01	111
	112	=item I<Learning Perl>
	113
	114	by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy
	115	ISBN 978-0-596-52010-6 [5th edition June 2008]
	116	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520106
	117
	118	=item I<Intermediate Perl> (the "Alpaca Book")
	119
	120	by Randal L. Schwartz and brian d foy, with Tom Phoenix
	121	foreword by Damian Conway
	122	ISBN 0-596-10206-2 [1st edition March 2006]
	123	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596102067
	124
	125	=item I<Mastering Perl>
	126
	127	by brian d foy
	128	ISBN 978-0-596-10206-7 [1st edition July 2007]
	129	http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527242
	130
	131	=item I<Effective Perl Programming>
	132
	133	by Joseph N. Hall, Joshua A. McAdams, brian d foy
	134	ISBN 0-321-49694-9 [2nd edition 2010]
	135	http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/
	136
	137	=back
	138
	139	=head2 Task-Oriented
	140
	141	=over 4
	142
	143	=item I<Writing Perl Modules for CPAN>
	144
	145	by Sam Tregar
	146	ISBN 1-59059-018-X [1st edition August 2002]
464a08e7	147	http://www.apress.com/9781590590188
ab098d01	148
	149	=item I<The Perl Cookbook>
	150
	151	by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington
	152	with foreword by Larry Wall
	153	ISBN 1-56592-243-3 [2nd edition August 2003]
	154	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003135
	155
ab098d01	156	=item I<Automating System Administration with Perl>
	157
	158	by David N. Blank-Edelman
	159	ISBN 978-0-596-00639-6 [2nd edition May 2009]
	160	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006396
	161
	162	=item I<Real World SQL Server Administration with Perl>
	163
	164	by Linchi Shea
	165	ISBN 1-59059-097-X [1st edition July 2003]
464a08e7	166	http://www.apress.com/9781590590973
ab098d01	167
	168	=back
	169
	170	=head2 Special Topics
	171
	172	=over 4
	173
	174	=item I<Regular Expressions Cookbook>
	175
	176	by Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan
	177	ISBN 978-0-596-52069-4 [May 2009]
	178	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520694
	179
	180	=item I<Programming the Perl DBI>
	181
	182	by Tim Bunce and Alligator Descartes
	183	ISBN 978-1-56592-699-8 [February 2000]
	184	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565926998
	185
	186	=item I<Perl Best Practices>
	187
	188	by Damian Conway
	189	ISBN: 978-0-596-00173-5 [1st edition July 2005]
	190	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596001735
	191
	192	=item I<Higher-Order Perl>
	193
	194	by Mark-Jason Dominus
	195	ISBN: 1-55860-701-3 [1st edition March 2005]
	196	http://hop.perl.plover.com/
	197
	198	=item I<Mastering Regular Expressions>
	199
	200	by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
	201	ISBN 978-0-596-52812-6 [3rd edition August 2006]
	202	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528126
	203
	204	=item I<Network Programming with Perl>
	205
	206	by Lincoln Stein
	207	ISBN 0-201-61571-1 [1st edition 2001]
	208	http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Network-Programming-with-Perl/9780201615715.page
	209
	210	=item I<Perl Template Toolkit>
	211
	212	by Darren Chamberlain, Dave Cross, and Andy Wardley
	213	ISBN 978-0-596-00476-7 [December 2003]
	214	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004767
	215
	216	=item I<Object Oriented Perl>
	217
	218	by Damian Conway
	219	with foreword by Randal L. Schwartz
	220	ISBN 1-884777-79-1 [1st edition August 1999]
	221	http://www.manning.com/conway/
	222
	223	=item I<Data Munging with Perl>
	224
	225	by Dave Cross
	226	ISBN 1-930110-00-6 [1st edition 2001]
	227	http://www.manning.com/cross
	228
	229	=item I<Mastering Perl/Tk>
	230
231	by Steve Lidie and Nancy Walsh
232	ISBN 978-1-56592-716-2 [1st edition January 2002]
233	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565927162
234
235	=item I<Extending and Embedding Perl>
236
237	by Tim Jenness and Simon Cozens
238	ISBN 1-930110-82-0 [1st edition August 2002]
239	http://www.manning.com/jenness
240
241	=item I<Pro Perl Debugging>
242
243	by Richard Foley with Andy Lester
244	ISBN 1-59059-454-1 [1st edition July 2005]
464a08e7	245	http://www.apress.com/9781590594544
ab098d01	246
	247	=back
	248
	249	=head2 Free (as in beer) books
	250
	251	Some of these books are available as free downloads.
	252
	253	I<Higher-Order Perl>: http://hop.perl.plover.com/
	254
ab098d01	255	=head2 Other interesting, non-Perl books
	256
	257	You might notice several familiar Perl concepts in this collection of
	258	ACM columns from Jon Bentley. The similarity to the title of the major
	259	Perl book (which came later) is not completely accidental:
	260
	261	=over 4
	262
	263	=item I<Programming Pearls>
	264
	265	by Jon Bentley
	266	ISBN 978-0-201-65788-3 [2 edition, October 1999]
	267
	268	=item I<More Programming Pearls>
	269
	270	by Jon Bentley
	271	ISBN 0-201-11889-0 [January 1988]
	272
	273	=back
	274
	275	=head2 A note on freshness
	276
	277	Each version of Perl comes with the documentation that was current at
	278	the time of release. This poses a problem for content such as book
	279	lists. There are probably very nice books published after this list
	280	was included in your Perl release, and you can check the latest
	281	released version at http://perldoc.perl.org/perlbook.html .
	282
	283	Some of the books we've listed appear almost ancient in internet
	284	scale, but we've included those books because they still describe the
	285	current way of doing things. Not everything in Perl changes every day.
	286	Many of the beginner-level books, too, go over basic features and
	287	techniques that are still valid today. In general though, we try to
	288	limit this list to books published in the past five years.
	289
	290	=head2 Get your book listed
	291
fa3a75c5	292	If your Perl book isn't listed and you think it should be, let us know.
ab098d01	293
ab098d01	294	=cut