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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/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
	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]
464a08e7	108	http://www.apress.com/9781430227939
ab098d01	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]
464a08e7	145	http://www.apress.com/9781590590188
ab098d01	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
ab098d01	154	=item I<Automating System Administration with Perl>
	155
	156	by David N. Blank-Edelman
	157	ISBN 978-0-596-00639-6 [2nd edition May 2009]
	158	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006396
	159
	160	=item I<Real World SQL Server Administration with Perl>
	161
	162	by Linchi Shea
	163	ISBN 1-59059-097-X [1st edition July 2003]
464a08e7	164	http://www.apress.com/9781590590973
ab098d01	165
	166	=back
	167
	168	=head2 Special Topics
	169
	170	=over 4
	171
	172	=item I<Regular Expressions Cookbook>
	173
	174	by Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan
	175	ISBN 978-0-596-52069-4 [May 2009]
	176	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520694
	177
	178	=item I<Programming the Perl DBI>
	179
	180	by Tim Bunce and Alligator Descartes
	181	ISBN 978-1-56592-699-8 [February 2000]
	182	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565926998
	183
	184	=item I<Perl Best Practices>
	185
	186	by Damian Conway
	187	ISBN: 978-0-596-00173-5 [1st edition July 2005]
	188	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596001735
	189
	190	=item I<Higher-Order Perl>
	191
	192	by Mark-Jason Dominus
	193	ISBN: 1-55860-701-3 [1st edition March 2005]
	194	http://hop.perl.plover.com/
	195
	196	=item I<Mastering Regular Expressions>
	197
	198	by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
	199	ISBN 978-0-596-52812-6 [3rd edition August 2006]
	200	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528126
	201
	202	=item I<Network Programming with Perl>
	203
	204	by Lincoln Stein
	205	ISBN 0-201-61571-1 [1st edition 2001]
	206	http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Network-Programming-with-Perl/9780201615715.page
	207
	208	=item I<Perl Template Toolkit>
	209
	210	by Darren Chamberlain, Dave Cross, and Andy Wardley
	211	ISBN 978-0-596-00476-7 [December 2003]
	212	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004767
	213
	214	=item I<Object Oriented Perl>
	215
	216	by Damian Conway
	217	with foreword by Randal L. Schwartz
	218	ISBN 1-884777-79-1 [1st edition August 1999]
	219	http://www.manning.com/conway/
	220
	221	=item I<Data Munging with Perl>
	222
	223	by Dave Cross
	224	ISBN 1-930110-00-6 [1st edition 2001]
	225	http://www.manning.com/cross
	226
	227	=item I<Mastering Perl/Tk>
	228
229	by Steve Lidie and Nancy Walsh
230	ISBN 978-1-56592-716-2 [1st edition January 2002]
231	http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565927162
232
233	=item I<Extending and Embedding Perl>
234
235	by Tim Jenness and Simon Cozens
236	ISBN 1-930110-82-0 [1st edition August 2002]
237	http://www.manning.com/jenness
238
239	=item I<Pro Perl Debugging>
240
241	by Richard Foley with Andy Lester
242	ISBN 1-59059-454-1 [1st edition July 2005]
464a08e7	243	http://www.apress.com/9781590594544
ab098d01	244
	245	=back
	246
	247	=head2 Free (as in beer) books
	248
	249	Some of these books are available as free downloads.
	250
	251	I<Higher-Order Perl>: http://hop.perl.plover.com/
	252
ab098d01	253	=head2 Other interesting, non-Perl books
	254
	255	You might notice several familiar Perl concepts in this collection of
	256	ACM columns from Jon Bentley. The similarity to the title of the major
	257	Perl book (which came later) is not completely accidental:
	258
	259	=over 4
	260
	261	=item I<Programming Pearls>
	262
	263	by Jon Bentley
	264	ISBN 978-0-201-65788-3 [2 edition, October 1999]
	265
	266	=item I<More Programming Pearls>
	267
	268	by Jon Bentley
	269	ISBN 0-201-11889-0 [January 1988]
	270
	271	=back
	272
	273	=head2 A note on freshness
	274
	275	Each version of Perl comes with the documentation that was current at
	276	the time of release. This poses a problem for content such as book
	277	lists. There are probably very nice books published after this list
	278	was included in your Perl release, and you can check the latest
	279	released version at http://perldoc.perl.org/perlbook.html .
	280
	281	Some of the books we've listed appear almost ancient in internet
	282	scale, but we've included those books because they still describe the
	283	current way of doing things. Not everything in Perl changes every day.
	284	Many of the beginner-level books, too, go over basic features and
	285	techniques that are still valid today. In general though, we try to
	286	limit this list to books published in the past five years.
	287
	288	=head2 Get your book listed
	289
fa3a75c5	290	If your Perl book isn't listed and you think it should be, let us know.
ab098d01	291
ab098d01	292	=cut