4.7 Resources
Books
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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 topica 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/perltootl University of Missouri Tutorial: www.cclabs.missouri.edu/things/instruction/perl/perlcoursel