Learning Perl
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Learning Perl, also known as the llama book, is a tutorial book for the Perl programming language, and is published by O'Reilly. Authored solely by Randal L. Schwartz in its first edition, the fourth and current edition was written by Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and Brian D Foy, and published in 2005, covering Perl version 5.8.
Unlike Programming Perl, this book is aimed at computer programmers new to Perl. The publisher offers a free sample of Chapter Eleven [1] as well as complete set of code examples presented in the book. [2]
Schwartz selected the world of The Flintstones for the examples in this book, giving rise to the somewhat frequent use of Fred and Barney as metasyntactic variables, rather than the classic foo and bar.
In 2003, Schwartz published a follow-up to the Llama, Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules. It picks up where Learning Perl left off. In 2005, Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules was updated by Schwartz and Foy and re-titled Intermediate Perl. Mastering Perl, the third book in the trilogy and follow-up to Intermediate Perl, was published in July 2007.
[edit] Editions
- First edition (1993; 274 pages; ISBN 1-56592-042-2)
- Second edition (1997; 300 pages; covers Perl 5.004; ISBN 1-56592-284-0)
- Third edition (2001; 330 pages; covers Perl 5.6; ISBN 0-596-00132-0)
- Fourth edition (2005; 312 pages; covers Perl 5.8; ISBN 0-596-10105-8)
