''Intermediate Perl'' is a book about the
Perl programming language
Perl is a family of two high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages. "Perl" refers to Perl 5, but from 2000 to 2019 it also referred to its redesigned "sister language", Perl 6, before the latter's name was offici ...
by
Randal L. Schwartz
Randal L. Schwartz (born November 22, 1961), also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant. He has written several books on the Perl programming language, and plays a promotional role within the Per ...
,
brian d foy and Tom Phoenix, published in 2006 by
O'Reilly Media
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. It was released as a retitled second edition of ''Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules'' () by Schwartz and Phoenix, published by O'Reilly Media in 2003 to favorable reviews.
A second edition of ''Intermediate Perl'' was released in 2012.
''Intermediate Perl'' is a follow-up to ''Learning Perl''. Just as ''Learning Perl'' features a
llama on its cover, its follow-up features an
alpaca. For this reason, they are sometimes referred to as, respectively, "the llama book" and "the alpaca book".
This book is written in very much the same style as its predecessor. It picks up right where ''Learning Perl'' left off, and takes the reader from the most basic features of Perl references all the way through to creating
Perl modules and distributing them to
CPAN.
Editions
* First edition (2006; )
* Second edition (2012; )
References
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External links
O'Reilly Catalog: Learning Perl Objects, References & ModulesO'Reilly Catalog: Intermediate Perl, 2nd Edition
2003 non-fiction books
O'Reilly Media books
Books about Perl