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=head1 NAME
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perlbook - Books about and related to Perl
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=head1 DESCRIPTION
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There are many books on Perl and Perl-related. A few of these are
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good, some are OK, but many aren't worth your money. There is a list
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of these books, some with extensive reviews, at
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L<https://www.perl.org/books/library.html> . We list some of the books here, and while
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listing a book implies our
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endorsement, don't think that not including a book means anything.
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Most of these books are available online through Safari Books Online
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( L<http://safaribooksonline.com/> ).
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=head2 The most popular books
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The major reference book on Perl, written by the creator of Perl, is
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I<Programming Perl>:
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=over 4
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=item I<Programming Perl> (the "Camel Book"):
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by Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall with Jon Orwant
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ISBN 978-0-596-00492-7 [4th edition February 2012]
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ISBN 978-1-4493-9890-3 [ebook]
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https://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004927
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=back
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The Ram is a cookbook with hundreds of examples of using Perl to
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accomplish specific tasks:
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=over 4
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=item I<The Perl Cookbook> (the "Ram Book"):
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by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington,
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with Foreword by Larry Wall
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ISBN 978-0-596-00313-5 [2nd Edition August 2003]
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ISBN 978-0-596-15888-0 [ebook]
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https://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003135/
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=back
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If you want to learn the basics of Perl, you might start with the
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Llama book, which assumes that you already know a little about
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programming:
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=over 4
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=item I<Learning Perl> (the "Llama Book")
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by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy
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ISBN 978-1-4493-0358-7 [6th edition June 2011]
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ISBN 978-1-4493-0458-4 [ebook]
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https://www.learning-perl.com/
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=back
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The tutorial started in the Llama continues in the Alpaca, which
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introduces the intermediate features of references, data structures,
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object-oriented programming, and modules:
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=over 4
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=item I<Intermediate Perl> (the "Alpaca Book")
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by Randal L. Schwartz and brian d foy, with Tom Phoenix
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foreword by Damian Conway
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ISBN 978-1-4493-9309-0 [2nd edition August 2012]
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ISBN 978-1-4493-0459-1 [ebook]
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https://www.intermediateperl.com/
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=back
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=head2 References
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You might want to keep these desktop references close by your keyboard:
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=over 4
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=item I<Perl 5 Pocket Reference>
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by Johan Vromans
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ISBN 978-1-4493-0370-9 [5th edition July 2011]
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ISBN 978-1-4493-0813-1 [ebook]
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https://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920018476/
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=item I<Perl Debugger Pocket Reference>
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by Richard Foley
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ISBN 978-0-596-00503-0 [1st edition January 2004]
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ISBN 978-0-596-55625-9 [ebook]
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https://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005030/
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=item I<Regular Expression Pocket Reference>
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by Tony Stubblebine
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ISBN 978-0-596-51427-3 [2nd edition July 2007]
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ISBN 978-0-596-55782-9 [ebook]
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https://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514273/
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=back
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=head2 Tutorials
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=over 4
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=item I<Beginning Perl>
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(There are 2 books with this title)
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe
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ISBN 978-1-118-01384-7
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http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-1118013840.html
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by James Lee
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ISBN 1-59059-391-X [3rd edition April 2010 & ebook]
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https://www.apress.com/9781430227939
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=item I<Learning Perl> (the "Llama Book")
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by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy
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ISBN 978-1-4493-0358-7 [6th edition June 2011]
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ISBN 978-1-4493-0458-4 [ebook]
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https://www.learning-perl.com/
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=item I<Intermediate Perl> (the "Alpaca Book")
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by Randal L. Schwartz and brian d foy, with Tom Phoenix
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foreword by Damian Conway
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ISBN 978-1-4493-9309-0 [2nd edition August 2012]
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ISBN 978-1-4493-0459-1 [ebook]
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https://www.intermediateperl.com/
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=item I<Mastering Perl>
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by brian d foy
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ISBN 9978-1-4493-9311-3 [2st edition January 2014]
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ISBN 978-1-4493-6487-8 [ebook]
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https://www.masteringperl.org/
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=item I<Effective Perl Programming>
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by Joseph N. Hall, Joshua A. McAdams, brian d foy
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ISBN 0-321-49694-9 [2nd edition 2010]
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https://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/
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=back
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=head2 Task-Oriented
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=over 4
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=item I<Writing Perl Modules for CPAN>
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by Sam Tregar
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ISBN 1-59059-018-X [1st edition August 2002 & ebook]
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https://www.apress.com/9781590590188
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=item I<The Perl Cookbook>
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by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington,
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with Foreword by Larry Wall
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ISBN 978-0-596-00313-5 [2nd Edition August 2003]
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ISBN 978-0-596-15888-0 [ebook]
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https://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003135/
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=item I<Automating System Administration with Perl>
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by David N. Blank-Edelman
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ISBN 978-0-596-00639-6 [2nd edition May 2009]
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ISBN 978-0-596-80251-6 [ebook]
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https://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006396
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=item I<Real World SQL Server Administration with Perl>
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by Linchi Shea
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ISBN 1-59059-097-X [1st edition July 2003 & ebook]
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https://www.apress.com/9781590590973
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=back
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=head2 Special Topics
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=over 4
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=item I<Regular Expressions Cookbook>
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by Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan
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ISBN 978-1-4493-1943-4 [2nd edition August 2012]
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ISBN 978-1-4493-2747-7 [ebook]
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https://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023630.do
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=item I<Programming the Perl DBI>
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by Tim Bunce and Alligator Descartes
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ISBN 978-1-56592-699-8 [February 2000]
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ISBN 978-1-4493-8670-2 [ebook]
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https://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565926998
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=item I<Perl Best Practices>
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by Damian Conway
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ISBN 978-0-596-00173-5 [1st edition July 2005]
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ISBN 978-0-596-15900-9 [ebook]
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https://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596001735
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=item I<Higher-Order Perl>
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by Mark-Jason Dominus
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ISBN 1-55860-701-3 [1st edition March 2005]
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free ebook https://hop.perl.plover.com/book/
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https://hop.perl.plover.com/
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=item I<Mastering Regular Expressions>
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by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
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ISBN 978-0-596-52812-6 [3rd edition August 2006]
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ISBN 978-0-596-55899-4 [ebook]
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https://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528126
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=item I<Network Programming with Perl>
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by Lincoln Stein
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ISBN 0-201-61571-1 [1st edition 2001]
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https://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Network-Programming-with-Perl/9780201615715.page
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=item I<Perl Template Toolkit>
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by Darren Chamberlain, Dave Cross, and Andy Wardley
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ISBN 978-0-596-00476-7 [December 2003]
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ISBN 978-1-4493-8647-4 [ebook]
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https://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004767
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=item I<Object Oriented Perl>
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by Damian Conway
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with foreword by Randal L. Schwartz
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ISBN 1-884777-79-1 [1st edition August 1999 & ebook]
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https://www.manning.com/conway/
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=item I<Data Munging with Perl>
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by Dave Cross
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ISBN 1-930110-00-6 [1st edition 2001 & ebook]
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https://www.manning.com/cross
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=item I<Mastering Perl/Tk>
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by Steve Lidie and Nancy Walsh
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ISBN 978-1-56592-716-2 [1st edition January 2002]
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ISBN 978-0-596-10344-6 [ebook]
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https://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565927162
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=item I<Extending and Embedding Perl>
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by Tim Jenness and Simon Cozens
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ISBN 1-930110-82-0 [1st edition August 2002 & ebook]
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https://www.manning.com/jenness
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=item I<Pro Perl Debugging>
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by Richard Foley with Andy Lester
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ISBN 1-59059-454-1 [1st edition July 2005 & ebook]
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https://www.apress.com/9781590594544
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=back
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=head2 Free (as in beer) books
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Some of these books are available as free downloads.
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I<Higher-Order Perl>: L<https://hop.perl.plover.com/>
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I<Modern Perl>: L<http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/>
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=head2 Other interesting, non-Perl books
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You might notice several familiar Perl concepts in this collection of
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ACM columns from Jon Bentley. The similarity to the title of the major
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Perl book (which came later) is not completely accidental:
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=over 4
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=item I<Programming Pearls>
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by Jon Bentley
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ISBN 978-0-201-65788-3 [2 edition, October 1999]
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=item I<More Programming Pearls>
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by Jon Bentley
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ISBN 0-201-11889-0 [January 1988]
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=back
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=head2 A note on freshness
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Each version of Perl comes with the documentation that was current at
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the time of release. This poses a problem for content such as book
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lists. There are probably very nice books published after this list
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was included in your Perl release, and you can check the latest
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released version at L<https://perldoc.perl.org/perlbook.html> .
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Some of the books we've listed appear almost ancient in internet
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scale, but we've included those books because they still describe the
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current way of doing things. Not everything in Perl changes every day.
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Many of the beginner-level books, too, go over basic features and
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techniques that are still valid today. In general though, we try to
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limit this list to books published in the past five years.
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=head2 Get your book listed
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If your Perl book isn't listed and you think it should be, let us know.
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L<mailto:perl5-porters@perl.org>
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=cut
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