=head1 NAME
-perlbook - Perl book information
+perlbook - Books about and related to Perl
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-The Camel Book, officially known as I<Programming Perl, Third Edition,
-July 2000>, by Larry Wall et al, ISBN 0-596-00027-8, is the definitive
-reference work covering nearly all of Perl. You can order it and
-other 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.oreilly.com/
-for an online order form.
-
-Other Perl books from various publishers and authors
-can be found listed in L<perlfaq2>.
+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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