Programming Perl 3rd Edition

Description

Perl is a powerful programming language that has grown in popularity since it first appeared in 1988. The first edition of this book, Programming Perl, hit the shelves in 1990, and was quickly adopted as the undisputed bible of the language. Since then, Perl has grown with the times, and so has this book.

Programming Perl is not just a book about Perl. It is also a unique introduction to the language and its culture, as one might expect only from its authors. Larry Wall is the inventor of Perl, and provides a unique perspective on the evolution of Perl and its future direction. Tom Christiansen was one of the first champions of the language, and lives and breathes the complexities of Perl internals as few other mortals do. Jon Orwant is the editor of The Perl Journal, which has brought together the Perl community as a common forum for new developments in Perl.

Any Perl book can show the syntax of Perl's functions, but only this one is a comprehensive guide to all the nooks and crannies of the language. Any Perl book can explain typeglobs, pseudohashes, and closures, but only this one shows how they really work. Any Perl book can say that my is faster than local, but only this one explains why. Any Perl book can have a title, but only this book is affectionately known by all Perl programmers as "The Camel."

This third edition of Programming Perl has been expanded to cover version 5.6 of this maturing language. New topics include threading, the compiler, Unicode, and other new features that have been added since the previous edition.

CONTENTS:

PrefacePart I: Overview
* Chapter 1: An Overview of PerlPart II: The Gory Details
* Chapter 2: Bits and Pieces
* Chapter 3: Unary and Binary Operators
* Chapter 4: Statements and Declarations
* Chapter 5: Pattern Matching
* Chapter 6: Subroutines
* Chapter 7: Formats
* Chapter 8: References
* Chapter 9: Data Structures
* Chapter 10: Packages
* Chapter 11: Modules
* Chapter 12: Objects
* Chapter 13: Overloading
* Chapter 14: Tied VariablesPart III: Perl as Technology
* Chapter 15: Unicode
* Chapter 16: Interprocess Communication
* Chapter 17: Threads
* Chapter 18: Compiling
* Chapter 19: The Command-Line Interface
* Chapter 20: The Perl Debugger
* Chapter 21: Internals and ExternalsPart IV: Perl as Culture
* Chapter 22: CPAN
* Chapter 23: Security
* Chapter 24: Common Practices
* Chapter 25: Portable Perl
* Chapter 26: Plain Old Documentation
* Chapter 27: Perl CulturePart V: Reference Material
* Chapter 28: Special Names
* Chapter 29: Functions
* Chapter 30: The Standard Perl Library
* Chapter 31: Pragmatic Modules
* Chapter 32: Standard Modules
* Chapter 33: Diagnostic MessagesColophon