Perl Books

Programming Perl (3rd Edition). I could stop this list right here. The "Camel Book" is the essential book in any Perl library. Funny, well-written and a model for what all computer books should be.

The Perl Cookbook is a great resource that's hoisted my particular bacon out of more than one fire over the years. Always nice to have a reference like this around when it's needed.

Once upon a time, people believed that Perl and CGI were the same thing. CGI Programming with Perl is one book that demonstrates why. It demonstrates how easily Perl can handle CGI requests, while taking into account security, scalability and maintenance of code. A classic.

After getting the hang of CGI, check out Web Client Programming with Perl. This wonderful book shows you how to handle the client side of Web programming. Very useful.

Lincoln Stein's Network Programming with Perl wraps up all ends of network programming in a nice, neat bow. Write network clients, servers, proxies, the whole enchilada. Fantastic book for anyone who has to deal with UDP or TCP/IP with something other than a pre-compiled client.

If you've ever needed to code a regular expression more complicated than s/[A-Z]/[a-z]/ or wondered why that bit even works, check out Mastering Regular Expressions, Second Edition. Obviously very application specific, but a terrific introduction and reference to the subject.

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