What modern Perl books should my company buy?

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What modern Perl books should my company buy?

My manager told me that i can make a recommendation list for books they should buy for our department.

Currently I am aiming at:

Perl Best Practices
Modern Perl
Effective Perl

What else am i missing?

Edit: Selected additions from the answers:

Higher Order Perl
Perl Medic
Perl Hacks
Perl Testing: A Devoloper's Notebook

+5 A:

Perl Hacks and Perl Cookbook are always good.

Weegee 2010-10-07 14:56:25

I'm not sure i want my colleagues to start learning perl hacks. The cookbook is already here and it had an influence that made the code way too low level.

Mithaldu 2010-10-07 15:51:26

Perl Hacks doesn't teach "hacks" per say, its useful tricks that make debugging and other common tasks easier and quicker. I would argue that its almost as important as Programming Perl and Conway's Perl Best Practices. Btw, Conway and Chromatic are authors for Perl Hacks... ;)

Weegee 2010-10-07 15:58:17

Alright, on reviewing the TOC and with the mention of Conway and chromatic, I'll add it to my list. Thanks. :)

Mithaldu 2010-10-08 07:28:19

+11 A:

While it's already a few years old, I can highly recommend Mark Jason Dominus' Higher-Order Perl. Parts of it were really enlightening for me.

rafl 2010-10-07 14:56:43

Thanks, i almost forgot about that one.

Mithaldu 2010-10-07 15:47:41

HOP is available for free on its web site :)

brian d foy 2010-10-07 17:26:50

brian: ... and it's a good enough book to want to have it in your library regardless.

tsee 2010-10-08 06:46:50

Programming Perl is a good one. Other good choices here: http://oreilly.com/pub/topic/perl

FrustratedWithFormsDesigner 2010-10-07 14:57:01

Programming Perl is a little dated now. Perhaps dangerously so. Up to date versions of most of the stuff from the Camel is in the docs that come with Perl.

davorg 2010-10-07 15:29:27

Yeah, i gotta agree with davorg here. Programming Perl is way too low level for modern perl, in fact, reading it it seems like it thinks Perl is C. I'm looking for recent perl books really.

Mithaldu 2010-10-07 15:48:44

+4 A:

One under-mentioned excellent book is Perl-Medic: Maintaining Inherited Code.

runrig 2010-10-07 15:12:16

Also thanks for this reminder, another one I meant to add to my list.

Mithaldu 2010-10-07 15:49:17

+1 A:

Mastering Perl and Mastering Algorithms with Perl

Chas. Owens 2010-10-07 15:56:39

+1 A:

If you're doing anything with XS, I can highly recommend Extending and Embedding Perl. It's not really beginners' material, though.

CanSpice 2010-10-07 16:04:02

I would recommend Advanced Perl Programming, for chapters explaining POE & Testing.

tszming 2010-10-07 16:06:34

And make sure it's the 2nd edition.

Andy Lester 2010-10-12 04:21:34

+3 A:

Consider getting an institutional subscription to The Perl Review. This is a nice thing to support.

ysth 2010-10-07 16:18:30

I've looked through most Perl books and Perl Black Book has been the best.

Hermann Ingjaldsson 2010-10-07 16:29:19

At the end of the day. I've always found that the documentation supplied with Perl and accessed through perldoc has been more comprehensive and up-tp-date than any book

Andrew Smith 2010-10-08 08:09:39

Does perldoc explain the importance of CPAN, perlcritic, perltidy, debuggers, functional style or testing so a manager can grasp it?

Mithaldu 2010-10-08 09:39:18

+1 A:

I found Perl Testing: A Devoloper's Notebook to be an excellent read. It does a great job of talking about and demonstrating how to write tests and testable code.

daotoad 2010-10-10 00:59:06

Yes, thank you! I've seen the book in the past and it is great. :)

Mithaldu 2010-10-10 07:51:00

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