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. Intermediate Perl is about making the leap

Originally released in 2003 as Learning Perl Objects, References, and
Modules and revised and updated for Perl 5.8, this book offers a gentle
but thorough introduction to intermediate programming in Perl. Written by
the authors of the best-selling Learning Perl, it picks up where that
- Packages and namespaces
- References and scoping
- Manipulating complex data structures
- Object-oriented programming
- Writing and using modules
- Testing Perl code
- Contributing to CPAN

Following the successful format of Learning Perl, we designed each
chapter in the book 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. To use the book, you just need to be familiar with the material

Perl is a different language to different people. It is a quick scripting
tool for some, and a fully-featured object-oriented language for others.
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. But regardless of what you
use Perl for, this book helps you do it more effectively, efficiently,

Intermediate Perl is about learning to use Perl as a programming
language, and not just a scripting language. This is the book that turns
the Perl dabbler into the Perl programmer.

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