3 perlbook - Books about and related to Perl
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.
13 Most of these books are available online through Safari Books Online
14 ( http://safaribooksonline.com/ ).
16 =head2 The most popular books
18 The major reference book on Perl, written by the creator of Perl, is
23 =item I<Programming Perl> (the "Camel Book"):
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
32 The Ram is a cookbook with hundreds of examples of using Perl to
33 accomplish specific tasks:
37 =item I<The Perl Cookbook> (the "Ram Book"):
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/
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
52 =item I<Learning Perl> (the "Llama Book")
54 by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy
55 ISBN 978-1-4493-0358-7 [6th edition June 2011]
56 http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920018452
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:
66 =item I<Intermediate Perl> (the "Alpaca Book")
68 by Randal L. Schwartz and brian d foy, with Tom Phoenix
69 foreword by Damian Conway
70 ISBN 978-1-4493-9309-0 [2nd edition August 2012]
71 http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920012689/
77 You might want to keep these desktop references close by your keyboard:
81 =item I<Perl 5 Pocket Reference>
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/
88 =item I<Perl Debugger Pocket Reference>
91 ISBN 978-0-596-00503-0 [1st edition January 2004]
92 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005030/
94 =item I<Regular Expression Pocket Reference>
97 ISBN 978-0-596-51427-3 [July 2007]
98 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514273/
106 =item I<Beginning Perl>
109 ISBN 1-59059-391-X [3rd edition April 2010]
110 http://www.apress.com/9781430227939
112 =item I<Learning Perl>
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
118 =item I<Intermediate Perl> (the "Alpaca Book")
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
125 =item I<Mastering Perl>
128 ISBN 978-0-596-10206-7 [1st edition July 2007]
129 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527242
131 =item I<Effective Perl Programming>
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/
143 =item I<Writing Perl Modules for CPAN>
146 ISBN 1-59059-018-X [1st edition August 2002]
147 http://www.apress.com/9781590590188
149 =item I<The Perl Cookbook>
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
156 =item I<Automating System Administration with Perl>
158 by David N. Blank-Edelman
159 ISBN 978-0-596-00639-6 [2nd edition May 2009]
160 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006396
162 =item I<Real World SQL Server Administration with Perl>
165 ISBN 1-59059-097-X [1st edition July 2003]
166 http://www.apress.com/9781590590973
170 =head2 Special Topics
174 =item I<Regular Expressions Cookbook>
176 by Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan
177 ISBN 978-0-596-52069-4 [May 2009]
178 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520694
180 =item I<Programming the Perl DBI>
182 by Tim Bunce and Alligator Descartes
183 ISBN 978-1-56592-699-8 [February 2000]
184 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565926998
186 =item I<Perl Best Practices>
189 ISBN: 978-0-596-00173-5 [1st edition July 2005]
190 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596001735
192 =item I<Higher-Order Perl>
194 by Mark-Jason Dominus
195 ISBN: 1-55860-701-3 [1st edition March 2005]
196 http://hop.perl.plover.com/
198 =item I<Mastering Regular Expressions>
200 by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
201 ISBN 978-0-596-52812-6 [3rd edition August 2006]
202 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528126
204 =item I<Network Programming with Perl>
207 ISBN 0-201-61571-1 [1st edition 2001]
208 http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Network-Programming-with-Perl/9780201615715.page
210 =item I<Perl Template Toolkit>
212 by Darren Chamberlain, Dave Cross, and Andy Wardley
213 ISBN 978-0-596-00476-7 [December 2003]
214 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004767
216 =item I<Object Oriented Perl>
219 with foreword by Randal L. Schwartz
220 ISBN 1-884777-79-1 [1st edition August 1999]
221 http://www.manning.com/conway/
223 =item I<Data Munging with Perl>
226 ISBN 1-930110-00-6 [1st edition 2001]
227 http://www.manning.com/cross
229 =item I<Mastering Perl/Tk>
231 by Steve Lidie and Nancy Walsh
232 ISBN 978-1-56592-716-2 [1st edition January 2002]
233 http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565927162
235 =item I<Extending and Embedding Perl>
237 by Tim Jenness and Simon Cozens
238 ISBN 1-930110-82-0 [1st edition August 2002]
239 http://www.manning.com/jenness
241 =item I<Pro Perl Debugging>
243 by Richard Foley with Andy Lester
244 ISBN 1-59059-454-1 [1st edition July 2005]
245 http://www.apress.com/9781590594544
249 =head2 Free (as in beer) books
251 Some of these books are available as free downloads.
253 I<Higher-Order Perl>: http://hop.perl.plover.com/
255 =head2 Other interesting, non-Perl books
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:
263 =item I<Programming Pearls>
266 ISBN 978-0-201-65788-3 [2 edition, October 1999]
268 =item I<More Programming Pearls>
271 ISBN 0-201-11889-0 [January 1988]
275 =head2 A note on freshness
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 .
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.
290 =head2 Get your book listed
292 If your Perl book isn't listed and you think it should be, let us know.