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There several good books on the market that teach Perl programming and
also some that explicitly deal with CGI/Perl:
- Learning Perl, R.L. Schwartz, O'Reilly and Associates Inc.
-- The "Llama Book". 1st edition introduces programming concepts with Perl 4.
]
- Programming Perl, L. Wall, T. Christiansen and R.L. Schwartz,
O'Reilly and Associates Inc. -- The "Camel Book". A
thorough Perl 5 reference with plenty of examples.
- Perl Cookbook, Tom Chritianson and Nathan
Torkington, O'Reilly and Associates Inc. -- Excellent collection of Perl
recipes to suite your every need. Lots of good solution and examples. I
have borrowed a few examples for this course.
- Advanced Perl Programming, S.Srinivasan, O'Reilly and
Associates Inc. -- A very good book to take your further into the realms
of Perl
- Perl 5 Desktop Reference, J. Vromans, O'Reilly and Associates Inc.
- Teach Yourself CGI Programming with Perl 5 in a Week, E.
Herrmann, Sams.Net -- excellent guide to CGI aspects of Perl
- CGI Developer's Guide, E.E. Kim, Sams.Net
- CGI Programming on the World Wide Web, S. Gundavaram, O'Reilly and
Associates Inc.
There are several good Web resources, Please also see Appendix A for a complete list of internet
based Perl resources:
- The Perl
Home Page
- -- http://www.perl.com
- The Perl Institue
- -- http://www.perl.org/
- The Perl FAQ's
- -- http://www.perl.com/perl/faq/
- Usenet Newsgroups:
- news:comp.lang.perl.announce,
news:comp.lang.perl.misc.
- Tom's Object-Oriented Perl Tutorial
- : --
http://language.perl.com/all_about/perltoot.html
- Randy's Column on OO
Perl
- --
http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/UnixReview/col13.html
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