Intermediate Perl
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Randal L. Schwartz
Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:...
, Brian D Foy
Brian d foy
Brian D Foy is the publisher and editor of The Perl Review, a magazine devoted to Perl and co-author of several books on Perl including Learning Perl and Intermediate Perl...
and Tom Phoenix, published in 2006 by O'Reilly
O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and Web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics...
. It was released as a retitled second edition of Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules (ISBN 0-596-00478-8) by Schwartz and Phoenix, published by O'Reilly in 2003 to favorable reviews.
Intermediate Perl is a follow-up to Learning Perl
Learning Perl
Learning Perl, also known as the llama book, is a tutorial book for the Perl programming language, and is published by O'Reilly. It was authored solely by Randal L. Schwartz in its first edition . The second edition was coauthored with Tom Christiansen and the third edition was coauthored with...
. Just as Learning Perl features a llama
Llama
The llama is a South American camelid, widely used as a meat and pack animal by Andean cultures since pre-Hispanic times....
on its cover, its follow-up features an alpaca
Alpaca
An alpaca is a domesticated species of South American camelid. It resembles a small llama in appearance.Alpacas are kept in herds that graze on the level heights of the Andes of southern Peru, northern Bolivia, Ecuador, and northern Chile at an altitude of to above sea level, throughout the year...
. 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 module
Perl module
A Perl module is a discrete component of software for the Perl programming language. Technically, it is a particular set of conventions for using Perl's package mechanism that has become universally adopted....
s and distributing them to CPAN
CPAN
CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, is an archive of nearly 100,000 modules of software written in Perl, as well as documentation for it. It has a presence on the World Wide Web at and is mirrored worldwide at more than 200 locations...
.