Some URLs that might help you are:
http://www.cpan.org/ports/
- http://language.perl.com/info/software.html
+ http://www.perl.com/pub/language/info/software.html
Someone looking for a Perl for Win16 might look to Laszlo Molnar's djgpp
port in http://www.cpan.org/ports/#msdos , which comes with clear
ISBN 1-56592-243-3 [1st Edition August 1998]
http://perl.oreilly.com/cookbook/
-If you're already a hard-core systems programmer, then the Camel Book
-might suffice for you to learn Perl from. If you're not, check out
+If you're already a seasoned programmer, then the Camel Book might
+suffice for you to learn Perl from. If you're not, check out the
+Llama book:
- Learning Perl (the "Llama Book"):
- by Randal Schwartz and Tom Christiansen
- with Foreword by Larry Wall
- ISBN 1-56592-284-0 [2nd Edition July 1997]
- http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl2/
+ Learning Perl (the "Llama Book")
+ by Randal L. Schwartz and Tom Phoenix
+ ISBN 0-596-00132-0 [3rd edition July 2001]
+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl3/
-Despite the picture at the URL above, the second edition of "Llama
-Book" really has a blue cover and was updated for the 5.004 release
-of Perl. Various foreign language editions are available, including
-I<Learning Perl on Win32 Systems> (the "Gecko Book").
+If you're not an accidental programmer, but a more serious and
+possibly even degreed computer scientist who doesn't need as much
+hand-holding as we try to provide in the Llama, please check out the
+delightful book
-If you're not an accidental programmer, but a more serious and possibly
-even degreed computer scientist who doesn't need as much hand-holding as
-we try to provide in the Llama or its defurred cousin the Gecko, please
-check out the delightful book, I<Perl: The Programmer's Companion>,
-written by Nigel Chapman.
+ Perl: The Programmer's Companion
+ by Nigel Chapman
+ ISBN 0-471-97563-X [1997, 3rd printing Spring 1998]
+ http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/97563-X.htm
+ http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/chapman/perl/perltpc.html (errata etc)
+
+If you are more at home in Windows the following is available
+(though unfortunately rather dated).
+
+ Learning Perl on Win32 Systems (the "Gecko Book")
+ by Randal L. Schwartz, Erik Olson, and Tom Christiansen,
+ with foreword by Larry Wall
+ ISBN 1-56592-324-3 [1st edition August 1997]
+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperlwin/
Addison-Wesley (http://www.awlonline.com/) and Manning
(http://www.manning.com/) are also publishers of some fine Perl books
-such as Object Oriented Programming with Perl by Damian Conway and
-Network Programming with Perl by Lincoln Stein.
+such as I<Object Oriented Programming with Perl> by Damian Conway and
+I<Network Programming with Perl> by Lincoln Stein.
An excellent technical book discounter is Bookpool at
http://www.bookpool.com/ where a 30% discount or more is not unusual.
http://www.manning.com/Johnson/
Learning Perl
- by Randal L. Schwartz and Tom Christiansen
- with foreword by Larry Wall
- ISBN 1-56592-284-0 [2nd edition July 1997]
- http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl2/
+ by Randal L. Schwartz and Tom Phoenix
+ ISBN 0-596-00132-0 [3rd edition July 2001]
+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl3/
Learning Perl on Win32 Systems
by Randal L. Schwartz, Erik Olson, and Tom Christiansen,
Perl: The Programmer's Companion
by Nigel Chapman
- ISBN 0-471-97563-X [1st edition October 1997]
- http://catalog.wiley.com/title.cgi?isbn=047197563X
+ ISBN 0-471-97563-X [1997, 3rd printing Spring 1998]
+ http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/97563-X.htm
+ http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/chapman/perl/perltpc.html (errata etc)
Cross-Platform Perl
by Eric Foster-Johnson
=head2 Perl in Magazines
The first and only periodical devoted to All Things Perl, I<The
-Perl Journal> contained tutorials, demonstrations, case studies,
-announcements, contests, and much more. I<TPJ> had columns on web
+Perl Journal> contains tutorials, demonstrations, case studies,
+announcements, contests, and much more. I<TPJ> has columns on web
development, databases, Win32 Perl, graphical programming, regular
expressions, and networking, and sponsored the Obfuscated Perl
-Contest. Sadly, this publication is no longer in circulation, but
-should it be resurrected, it will most likely be announced on
-http://use.perl.org/ .
+Contest. For more details on I<The Perl Journal>, see
+http://www.tpj.com/
Beyond this, magazines that frequently carry high-quality articles
on Perl are I<Web Techniques> (see http://www.webtechniques.com/),
I<Performance Computing> (http://www.performance-computing.com/), and Usenix's
newsletter/magazine to its members, I<login:>, at http://www.usenix.org/.
-Randal's Web Technique's columns are available on the web at
+Randal's Web Techniques columns are available on the web at
http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/ .
=head2 Perl on the Net: FTP and WWW Access
One may also use xx.cpan.org where "xx" is the 2-letter country code
for your domain; e.g. Australia would use au.cpan.org.
+[Note: This only applies to countries that host at least one mirror.]
=head2 What mailing lists are there for Perl?
=head2 Archives of comp.lang.perl.misc
-Have you tried Deja or AltaVista? Those are the
-best archives. Just look up "*perl*" as a newsgroup.
-
- http://www.deja.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=&DBS=2&ST=PS&defaultOp=AND&LNG=ALL&format=terse&showsort=date&maxhits=25&subjects=&groups=*perl*&authors=&fromdate=&todate=
+The Google search engine now carries archived and searchable newsgroup
+content.
-You might want to trim that down a bit, though.
+http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&group=comp.lang.perl.misc
-You'll probably want more a sophisticated query and retrieval mechanism
-than a file listing, preferably one that allows you to retrieve
-articles using a fast-access indices, keyed on at least author, date,
-subject, thread (as in "trn") and probably keywords. The best
-solution the FAQ authors know of is the MH pick command, but it is
-very slow to select on 18000 articles.
-
-If you have, or know where can be found, the missing sections, please
-let perlfaq-suggestions@perl.com know.
+If you have a question, you can be sure someone has already asked the
+same question at some point on c.l.p.m. It requires some time and patience
+to sift through all the content but often you will find the answer you
+seek.
=head2 Where can I buy a commercial version of Perl?
=head2 What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org?
-The Perl Home Page at http://www.perl.com/ is currently hosted on a
-T3 line courtesy of Songline Systems, a software-oriented subsidiary of
-O'Reilly and Associates. Other starting points include
-
- http://language.perl.com/
- http://conference.perl.com/
- http://reference.perl.com/
+The Perl Home Page at http://www.perl.com/ is currently hosted by
+The O'Reilly Network, a subsidiary of O'Reilly and Associates.
Perl Mongers is an advocacy organization for the Perl language which
maintains the web site http://www.perl.org/ as a general advocacy
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