=head1 NAME
-perlbook - Perl book information
+perlbook - Books about and related to Perl
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-You can order Perl books from O'Reilly & Associates, 1-800-998-9938.
-Local/overseas is +1 707 829 0515. If you can locate an O'Reilly
-order form, you can also fax to +1 707 829 0104. If you're
-web-connected, you can even mosey on over to http://www.ora.com/ for
-an online order form.
-
-I<Programming Perl, Second Edition> is a reference work that covers
-nearly all of Perl; I<Learning Perl, Second Edition> is a tutorial that
-covers the most frequently used subset of the language; and I<Advanced
-Perl Programming> is an in-depth study of complex topics including the
-internals of perl. You might also check out the very handy, inexpensive,
-and compact I<Perl 5 Desktop Reference>, especially when the thought of
-lugging the 676-page Camel around doesn't make much sense. I<Mastering
-Regular Expressions>, by Jeffrey Friedl, is a reference work that covers
-the art and implementation of regular expressions in various languages
-including Perl. Currently published quarterly by Jon Orwant, I<The Perl
-Journal> is the first and only periodical devoted to All Things Perl.
-See http://www.tpj.com/ for information.
-
- Programming Perl, Second Edition (the Camel Book):
- ISBN 1-56592-149-6 (English)
-
- Learning Perl, Second Edition (the Llama Book):
- ISBN 1-56592-284-0 (English)
-
- Learning Perl on Win32 Systems (the Gecko Book):
- ISBN 1-56592-324-3 (English)
-
- Advanced Perl Programming (the Panther Book):
- ISBN 1-56592-220-4 (English)
-
- Perl 5 Desktop Reference (the reference card):
- ISBN 1-56592-187-9 (brief English)
-
- Mastering Regular Expressions (the Hip Owl Book):
- ISBN 1-56592-257-3 (English)
+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
+L<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
+( L<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]
+ ISBN 978-0-596-15888-0 [ebook]
+ 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]
+ ISBN 978-1-4493-0458-4 [ebook]
+ http://www.learning-perl.com/
+
+=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]
+ ISBN 978-1-4493-0459-1 [ebook]
+ http://www.intermediateperl.com/
+
+=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]
+ ISBN 978-0-596-55625-9 [ebook]
+ http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005030/
+
+=item I<Regular Expression Pocket Reference>
+
+ by Tony Stubblebine
+ ISBN 978-0-596-51427-3 [2nd edition July 2007]
+ ISBN 978-0-596-55782-9 [ebook]
+ 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 & ebook]
+ http://www.apress.com/9781430227939
+
+=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]
+ ISBN 978-1-4493-0458-4 [ebook]
+ http://www.learning-perl.com/
+
+=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]
+ ISBN 978-1-4493-0459-1 [ebook]
+ http://www.intermediateperl.com/
+
+=item I<Mastering Perl>
+
+ by brian d foy
+ ISBN 9978-1-4493-9311-3 [2st edition January 2014]
+ ISBN 978-1-4493-6487-8 [ebook]
+ http://www.masteringperl.org/
+
+=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 & ebook]
+ http://www.apress.com/9781590590188
+
+=item I<The Perl Cookbook>
+
+ by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington,
+ with Foreword by Larry Wall
+ ISBN 978-0-596-00313-5 [2nd Edition August 2003]
+ ISBN 978-0-596-15888-0 [ebook]
+ 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]
+ ISBN 978-0-596-80251-6 [ebook]
+ 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 & ebook]
+ http://www.apress.com/9781590590973
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Special Topics
+
+=over 4
+
+=item I<Regular Expressions Cookbook>
+
+ by Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan
+ ISBN 978-1-4493-1943-4 [2nd edition August 2012]
+ ISBN 978-1-4493-2747-7 [ebook]
+ http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023630.do
+
+=item I<Programming the Perl DBI>
+
+ by Tim Bunce and Alligator Descartes
+ ISBN 978-1-56592-699-8 [February 2000]
+ ISBN 978-1-4493-8670-2 [ebook]
+ http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565926998
+
+=item I<Perl Best Practices>
+
+ by Damian Conway
+ ISBN 978-0-596-00173-5 [1st edition July 2005]
+ ISBN 978-0-596-15900-9 [ebook]
+ http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596001735
+
+=item I<Higher-Order Perl>
+
+ by Mark-Jason Dominus
+ ISBN 1-55860-701-3 [1st edition March 2005]
+ free ebook http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/
+ 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]
+ ISBN 978-0-596-55899-4 [ebook]
+ 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]
+ ISBN 978-1-4493-8647-4 [ebook]
+ 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 & ebook]
+ http://www.manning.com/conway/
+
+=item I<Data Munging with Perl>
+
+ by Dave Cross
+ ISBN 1-930110-00-6 [1st edition 2001 & ebook]
+ 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]
+ ISBN 978-0-596-10344-6 [ebook]
+ 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 & ebook]
+ 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 & ebook]
+ 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>: L<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 L<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.
+L<mailto:perl5-porters@perl.org>
+
+=cut
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