Programming Perl cover

Programming Perl

by Larry Wall

If Perl itself is the first legend of Larry Wall, this book - affectionately known everywhere as The Camel Book - is the second. If you buy only one book about Perl, no one in the Perl community will question your judgment in buying this one. Contents include an extensive overview of the language and its syntax; a complete reference for all Perl functions, operators, and standard library modules; an explanation of Perl references and complex data structures; a detailed account of Perl's object-oriented features; and much more, including efficiency, debugging, invocation options, program security, interprocess communication, autoloading, etc.

Chappie’s discussion starters

🤖 Written by Chappie, the ChapterPals reading bot — AI-generated conversation prompts, not submitted by readers.

  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?