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• A Fresh Look at Efficient Perl Sorting

  http://www.sysarch.com/Perl/sort_paper.html
  The Award winning paper presented by Larry Rosler and Uri Guttman at the 1999 Perl Conference.

• AnnoCPAN

  http://annocpan.org/
  An "annotated CPAN": a site with all the documentation available on CPAN, along with user-supplied annotations on the margin.

• AnnoCPAN Recent Notes

  http://annocpan.org/recent.rss
  RSS feed with the latest notes posted to AnnoCPAN.

• HTMLified Perl 5 Reference Guide

  http://www.rexswain.com/perl5.html
  by Rex Swain.

• Learning Perl the Hard Way

  http://www.greenteapress.com/perl/
  Book aimed at those who can already program in another language; emphasizes programming style. Distributed under the GNU FDL. [PDF/Postscript]

• OOPWeb.com - Perl Directory

  http://www.oopweb.com/Perl/Files/Perl.html
  Perl 5 Documentation by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington. And Perl 4 man page by Robert Stockton.

• Perl 4 Manual

  http://www-cgi.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/perl-man
  Hypertexted searchable index to man.

• Perl 5 by Example

  http://affy.blogspot.com/p5be/index.htm
  Complete text of David Medinets' book, in HTML format.

• Perl Crawler Search Engine

  http://perlsearch.hypermart.net/
  The Perl Crawler Search Engine is huge searchable index of all sites devoted to Perl and CGI programming, backed up with a state-of-the-art web indexing spider.

• Perl Documentation (FTP)

  ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/doc/
  Includes a collection of documents about Perl.

• Perl Documentation - perldoc.perl.org

  http://perldoc.perl.org/
  Core documentation for the current version of Perl, in HTML and PDF formats. Features include highlighting and linking of code examples, labels, and a customisable display.

• Perl FAQ Index

  http://faq.perl.org/
  A list of frequently asked Perl questions with expert answers.

• Perl Medic

  http://www.perlmedic.com/
  Book by Peter Scott about maintaining legacy code. Contents, excerpts, errata, and source code.

• Perlfect Solutions - Articles and Tutorials

  http://www.perlfect.com/articles/
  Articles and tutorials on perl programming techniques. Subjects range from CGI to database access and network programming.

• Writing Perl Modules for CPAN

  http://apress.com/book/view/9781590590188
  Book by Sam Tregar, freely available from Apress. [3 MB]

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