Mastering Perl
by brian d foy · first published 2007
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"This is the third in O'Reilly's series of landmark Perl tutorials, which includes Learning Perl, the introduction to the basics of Perl syntax, and Intermediate Perl, the guide to creating re-usable Perl software. By conveying Perl's special models and programming idioms, Mastering Perl pulls it all together to help you bend Perl to your will." "This book isn't a collection of clever tricks, but a way of thinking about Perl programming so you can solve real-life problems of debugging, maintenance, and configuration that you encounter as a working programmer." "Mastering Perl starts you on you
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…https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/intermediate-perl/05961... Followed by equally amazing book by the greatest programmer in the world: Higher Order Perl - https://hop.perl.plover.com/ And of course: Mastering Perl - https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/mastering-perl/97805965... To get super quick in the command line, also you might want to get my book: Perl One-Liners Explained - https://nostarch.com/perloneliners…
on “Perl Turns 34 Today” ↗…books are great even today as they transcend the Perl language. A little outdated but still great to read are: Randal L. Schwartz "Learning Perl" Randal L. Schwartz "Intermediate Perl" Brian D Foy "Mastering Perl" (my personal favorite in this series) if you need to learn Perl 5 today. I personally also liked Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington: "Perl Cookbook" which was basically just a large collection of…
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