Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules

Perl is a versatile, powerful programming language used in a variety of disciplines, ranging from system administration to web programming to database manipulation. One slogan of Perl is that it makes easy things easy and hard things possible.

• Written by the authors of the best-selling Learning Perl, this book picks up where that book left off.

This book is about making the leap from the easy things to the hard ones.Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules offers a gentle but thorough introduction to advanced programming in Perl. Topics include:Packages and namespacesReferences and scopingManipulating complex data structuresObject-oriented programmingWriting and using modulesContributing to CPANFollowing the successful format of Learning Perl, each chapter in the book is designed to be small enough to be read in just an hour or two, ending with a series of exercises to help you practice what you've learned.

• It is a quick scripting tool for some, and a fully-featured object-oriented language for others.

To use the book, you just need to be familiar with the material in Learning Perl and have ambition to go further.Perl is a different language to different people. It is used for everything from performing quick global replacements on text files, to crunching huge, complex sets of scientific data that take weeks to process.

• Perl is what you make of it.

• This is the book that separates the Perl dabbler from the Perl programmer.

But regardless of what you use Perl for, this book helps you do it more effectively, efficiently, and elegantly.Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules is about learning to use Perl as a programming language, and not just a scripting language.