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[[Image:Learning_perl_objects_etc..jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|Cover of Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules]]

'''''Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules''''', published in [[2003]] by [[O'Reilly Media|O'Reilly]] (ISBN 05960047880-596-00478-8), is a follow-up to the highly popular ''[[Learning Perl]]'' book by [[Randal L. Schwartz]] and [[Tom Phoenix]]. Just as ''Learning Perl'' features a [[Llama]] on its cover, its follow-up features an [[Alpaca]]. For this reason, they are sometimes referred to as, respectively, "the Llama book" and '''"the Alpaca book"'''.

This book is written in very much the same style as its predecessor. It picks up right where Learning Perl left off, and takes the reader from the most basic features of Perl references all the way through to creating [[perl module]]s and distributing them to [[CPAN]].

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For this book, rather than using [[Fred Flintstone|Fred]] and [[Barney Rubble|Barney]] as [[metasyntactic variable]]s again, Schwartz used the names of characters from [[Gilligan's Island]], a theme originally used by Joseph Hall in the training material he developed for Schwartz while working with Stonehenge Consulting. Those materials formed the basis for the book.

In March 2006 a second edition of this book was published under the new title '''Intermediate Perl''' (ISBN 05961020620-596-10206-2).

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