Some Perl Resources

Books

1. Learning Perl by Randal Schwartz and Larry Wall
   O'Reilly & Associates, 1993, ISBN: 1-56592-042-2

   

   The ideal place to start if you don't know Perl and have little programming experience.

2. Programming Perl by Larry Wall
   O'Reilly & Associates, 1991, ISBN: 0-937175-64-1

   

   If you're going to buy only one of these two books, this is the one to get - covers everything you'd ever need to know about Perl 4.

3. Other books include: Learning Perl in 21 days from Sams.

The Net

1. Web:
   • CPAN - the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
   • The Metronet Perl Archives
   • The Yahoo Perl list for much more complete list of Perl web pages
   • Tom Christiansen

2. Usenet:
   • comp.lang.perl.announce
   • comp.lang.perl.misc
   • comp.lang.perl.tk

Other

1. The Perl man pages

2. The Perl FAQ
3. The Perl 5 reference card (in postscript)
4. Randal Schwartz's "Unix Review" Perl columns
5. Jim Shapiro, "Prototyping Algorithms in Perl", Linux Journal, August 1995, Issue 16, p 39.
6. Running Linux, Matt Walsh & Lar Kaufman, O'Reilly & Associates, 1995, p334ff.
7. CDs from companies such as Walnut Creek and Infomagic.

Updated: 5 December, 1995