Resources

• Perl 6 Essentials (O'Reilly & Associates, 2003) covers the development not only of Perl 6 syntax but also Parrot, the language-independent interpreter developed as part of the Perl 6 design strategy.
  
  
• Perl Cookbook, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly & Associates, 2003) is a comprehensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for anyone programming in Perl.
  
  
• Perl Template Toolkit (O'Reilly & Associates, 2003) guides you through the entire process of installing, configuring, using, and extending the Template Toolkit. See also the home page of the Template Toolkit.
  
  
• Check out the main O'Reilly & Associates Web site for more O'Reilly titles.
  
  
• Keep up with Perl 6 news at the main page for Parrot (and Perl 6, for now); and with the Perl 6 weekly updates.
  
  
• Bernd Dulfer's Perl6 quick reference is an invaluable Perl 6 resource.
  
  
• You will also be interested in Larry Wall's plans for Perl 6 regular expressions, and Allison Randall and Damian Conway's clarification of Larry Wall's article. See also Damian Conway's examples of Perl 6 regular expressions in action.
  
  
• The Perl6::Rules module for including Perl 6 regular expression syntax in Perl 5 lives at CPAN.
  
  
• Parse::RecDescent, Ted's Tie::Hash::TwoWay, and the Regexp::Common module at CPAN, too. Read more about Parse::RecDescent in Ted's Cultured Perl column, Writing Perl programs that speak English (developerWorks, August 2000). He discusses Tie::Hash::TwoWay in Cultured Perl: Tied variables (developerWorks, January 2003).
  
  
• Read Ted's other Perl articles in the Cultured Perl series.
  
  
• Has this article gotten you into a book-buying mood? Charming Python: Updating your Python reading list (developerWorks, May 2002) gives David Mertz' picks and pans of Python publications.
  
  
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• Purchase Linux books at discounted prices in the Linux section of the Developer Bookstore.
  
  
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