Advanced Books

These books are recommended as further reading for the Perl programmer who has already been introduced to the language. The books here cover the core language and technologies of Perl. If you wish to learn about specific technologies then refer to the topic-related books.

Programming Perl

This is the classic reference to the Perl language, commonly known as "The Camel Book". (after the camel on its cover). This book is highly readable, funny, and covers the entire Perl 5.6.1 language on all of its fine points.

It is highly recommended as a book to read after you know your way around the core Perl language, so you can learn much more about it, and enjoy its many jokes.

Writing Perl Modules for CPAN

This book covers the art and science of working on Perl modules, putting them on CPAN and maintaining them. It is written in a light style, and makes a very good and easy read. The book in PDF format is available online for free download and reading.

Object-Oriented Perl

This book covers Object Oriented Programming using Perl, starting from simple modules objects up to advanced object oriented techniques like persistence or multi-methods.

It is full with examples, and explanations, and is very comprehensive for its topic.

The Perl Cookbook

This book gives a long list of tasks to be accomplished and recipes that accomplish them. By looking at the recipes one can learn more about Perl and also know how to accomplish many common tasks in Perl.