Perl

Perl, also Practical Extraction and Report Language (a backronym, see below), is an interpreted procedural programming language designed by Larry Wall. Perl borrows features from C, shell scripting (sh), awk, sed, and (to a lesser extent) many other programming languages.

Books

The Perl Foundation keeps a list of books available covering Perl on http://books.perl.org/. Some notable books are:

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• Programming Perl (also known as the Camel book)
• Perl Cookbook
• Learning Perl (also called the Llama book)
• A collection of other free Perl books