4.7 Resources

Books

[ Christiansen+ 98] Christiansen, Tom, and Nathan Torkington. Perl Cookbook . Recipes to do all types of tasks in Perl.

[Conway 99] Conway, Damien. Object-Oriented Perl . A complete introduction to the object-oriented features of Perl. A must-read for those wanting to learn how to use Perl for object-oriented programming.

[ Friedl 02] Friedl, Jeffrey E. F. Mastering Regular Expressions . An excellent book covering a complex topic ”a must have for those of us creating complex regexes.

[Hall+ 98] Hall, Joseph N., and Randal Schwartz. Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs with Perl . A very good book discussing many advanced features of Perl, including references and modules.

[Schilli 98] Schilli, Michael. Perl Power: A JumpStart Guide to Programming with Perl 5 . A good introduction to the language.

[Schwartz+ 01] Schwartz, Randal L., and Tom Phoenix. Learning Perl, Third Edition . An excellent introduction to Perl.

[Stein 01] Stein, Lincoln D. Network Programming with Perl . If you want to use Perl to write network programs, get this book. An excellent treatment of networking with Perl.

[Wall+ 00] Wall, Larry, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant. Programming Perl, Third Edition . The bible, Larry Wall version. Read it, study it, grok it.

Tutorials

Perl in 20 pages : www.best.com/~quong/perlin20/

Tom's object-oriented tutorial for Perl : http://language.perl.com/all_about/perltoot.html

University of Missouri Tutorial : www.cclabs.missouri.edu/things/instruction/perl/perlcourse.html

Web Sites

Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) : www.cpan.org/

Latest Perl source : www.perl.com/CPAN/src/stable.tar.gz

Perl advocacy : www.perl.org

Perldoc.com : www.perldoc.com/

Perl home page : www.perl.com/

The Perl Journal : www.tpj.com/

Perl mongers : www.pm.org/

Perl news : www.use.perl.org/

The Perl Review : www.theperlreview.com