Making Easy Things Easy & Hard Things Possible - Covers Pearl 5.8

Written by three prominent and active members of the Perl community, this book is the quintessential tutorial to the Perl programming language. The fourth edition was updated to explain new features in Perl 5.8 and what to expect of Perl Version 6, but the book also retains the essential information that applies the current working version of Perl. The authors re-engineered the book to match the pace and scope appropriate for new learners, while retaining the detailed discussion, thorough examples, and eclectic wit that the book is famous for. This methodically updated tutorial explains in a clear and concise manner how to work with data structures, minimal matching, and topics like threading and data parsing. The book also introduces references, objects, and modules, and explains how packages are implemented in Perl.