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Perl Sources
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There are all sorts of information available about perl.
I can't list them all, but here are my favorites.
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Books
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- Learning Perl by R. Schwartz and T. Christiansen
- Excellent gentle introduction for beginners.
- Programming Perl by L. Wall, T. Christiansen and R. Schwartz
- The bible. If you don't have this one, you're not serious.
This book is really a language reference plus a little philosophy.
But you'll need additional material for extended examples
of how it all works together.
- Perl Cookbook by T. Christiansen and N. Torkington
- Lots of tricks of the trade. Small to medium examples
of useful tidbits. Excellent way to see perl applied
in easy-to-follow examples.
- Advanced Perl Programming by S. Srinivasan
- Advanced data structures, OO programming, GUIs, databases,
and perl internals. Takes the large view of how to use
perl to handle advanced computer science topics.
- Effective Perl Programming by J. Hall with R. Schwartz
- Advanced techniques at the small level. Deals with perl
idioms and details that every solid perl programmer should understand.
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Local Documentation
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- man pages
- man perl will tell you about other local man pages.
They are large and have lots of info.
- perldoc
- Locally installed modules have documentation available
with the perldoc command. E.g. perldoc File::Find
to read the docs about the File::Find module.
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Newsgroups
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- comp.lang.perl.*
- There are many groups in this hierarchy, some of which are large
and noisy. I prefer comp.lang.perl.moderated for
insightful comments about the language. Also comp.lang.perl.modules
for questions about modules (libraries and OO programming).
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Web Sites
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- CPAN
- The mother of all lists of perl modules.
If you wonder if someone
else may have already written what you need, check CPAN first.
And if you want the latest perl, it's here.
- perl.com
- Excellent news about perl, conferences, stories, and more.
Includes pointers to the FAQ, tutorials, and references.
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