The Best Perl Books
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11 RankingsProgramming Perl
by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant
Perl is a powerful programming language that has grown in popularity since it first appeared in 1988. The first edition of this book, Programming Perl, hit the shelves in 1990, and was quickly adopted as the undisputed bible of the language. Since then, Perl has grown with the times, and so has this book. Programming Perl is not just a book abou...
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7 RankingsLearning Perl
by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, brian d foy
Learning Perl, better known as "the Llama book", starts the programmer on the way to mastery. Written by three prominent members of the Perl community who each have several years of experience teaching Perl around the world, this edition has been updated to account for all the recent changes to the language up to Perl 5.8. Perl is the language f...
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4 RankingsPerl Best Practices
by Damian Conway
With a good dose of Aussie humor, Dr. Conway (familiar to many in the Perl community) offers 256 guidelines on the art of coding to help you write better Perl code--in fact, the best Perl code you possibly can. The guidelines cover code layout, naming conventions, choice of data and control structures, program decomposition, interface design an...
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4 RankingsPerl Cookbook
by Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington
The Perl Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for anyone programming in Perl. Topics range from beginner questions to techniques that even the most experienced Perl programmers can learn from. More than just a collection of tips and tricks, the Perl Cookbook is the long-awaited companion volume to...
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2 RankingsEffective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs With Perl
by Joseph N. Hall, Randal Schwartz
Powerful and flexible, Perl has established itself as a premier programming language, especially as a tool for World Wide Web development, text processing, and system administration. The language features full support for regular expressions, object-oriented modules, network programming, and process management. Perl is extensible and supports m...
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3 RankingsHigher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs
by Mark Jason Dominus
Higher-Order Perl is about functional programming techniques in Perl. It's about how to write functions that can modify and manufacture other functions.
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2 RankingsAdvanced Perl Programming
by Simon Cozens
With a worldwide community of users and more than a million dedicated programmers, Perl has proven to be the most effective language for the latest trends in computing and business. Every programmer must keep up with the latest tools and techniques. This updated version of Advanced Perl Programming from O'Reilly gives you the essential knowledge...
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1 RankingIntermediate Perl
by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, Brian D Foy
Perl is a versatile, powerful programming language used in a variety of disciplines, ranging from system administration to web programming to database manipulation. One slogan of Perl is that it makes easy things easy and hard things possible. Intermediate Perl is about making the leap from the easy things to the hard ones.
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1 RankingPerl Core Language Little Black Book: The Essentials of the Perl Language
by Steven Holzner
This book is one of the most practical and concise guides available for Perl programming. It includes step-by-step solutions on object-oriented programming in Perl. It provides highly referenceable, task-oriented answers to scripting with Perl. Numerous immediate solutions are provided with field tested examples to help Web developers quickly so...
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1 RankingObject Oriented Perl: A Comprehensive Guide to Concepts and Programming Techniques
by Damian Conway
Object Oriented Perl is designed to provide anyone who is familiar with the basics of regular Perl programming with a complete introduction to the object-oriented features of Perl. The book moves from the very simplest applications through advanced applications such as generic programming, multiple dispatch, and object-oriented persistence. Thus...
