=head1 NAME
-perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.20 $, $Date: 2003/01/26 17:50:56 $)
+perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.25 $, $Date: 2003/10/16 04:57:38 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
One simple way to check that things are in the right place is to print out
the hard-coded @INC that perl looks through for libraries:
- % perl -e 'print join("\n",@INC)'
+ % perl -le 'print for @INC'
If this command lists any paths that don't exist on your system, then you
may need to move the appropriate libraries to these locations, or create
ISBN 0-596-00132-0 [3rd edition July 2001]
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl3/
+And for more advanced information on writing larger programs,
+presented in the same style as the Llama book, continue your education
+with the Alpaca book:
+
+ Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules (the "Alpaca Book")
+ by Randal L. Schwartz, with Tom Phoenix (foreword by Damian Conway)
+ ISBN 0-596-00478-8 [1st edition June 2003]
+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lrnperlorm/
+
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
ISBN 0-596-00132-0 [3rd edition July 2001]
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl3/
+ Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules
+ by Randal L. Schwartz, with Tom Phoenix (foreword by Damian Conway)
+ ISBN 0-596-00478-8 [1st edition June 2003]
+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lrnperlorm/
+
Learning Perl on Win32 Systems
by Randal L. Schwartz, Erik Olson, and Tom Christiansen,
with foreword by Larry Wall
Mastering Regular Expressions
by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
- ISBN 1-56592-257-3 [1st edition January 1997]
- http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex/
+ ISBN 0-596-00289-0 [2nd edition July 2002]
+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex2/
Network Programming with Perl
by Lincoln Stein
ISBN 1-56592-716-8 [1st edition January 2002]
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mastperltk/
+ Extending and Embedding Perl
+ by Tim Jenness and Simon Cozens
+ ISBN 1-930110-82-0 [1st edition August 2002]
+ http://www.manning.com/jenness
+
=back
=head2 Perl in Magazines
announcements, contests, and much more. I<TPJ> has columns on web
development, databases, Win32 Perl, graphical programming, regular
expressions, and networking, and sponsors the Obfuscated Perl Contest
-and the Perl Poetry Contests. As of mid-2001, the dead tree version
-of TPJ will be published as a quarterly supplement of SysAdmin
-magazine ( http://www.sysadminmag.com/ ) For more details on TPJ,
-see http://www.tpj.com/
+and the Perl Poetry Contests. Beginning in November 2002, TPJ moved to a
+reader-supported monthly e-zine format in which subscribers can download
+issues as PDF documents. For more details on TPJ, see http://www.tpj.com/
Beyond this, magazines that frequently carry quality articles on
Perl are I<The Perl Review> ( http://www.theperlreview.com ),