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'''''Learning Perl''''', also known as the ''llama book'',<ref>{{cite book|last=Castro|first=Elizabeth|year=2001|publisher=[[Peachpit Press]]|title=Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web|page=314|isbn=9780201735680978-0-201-73568-0|accessdate=June 23, 2011|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=PodQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Learning+Perl%22+schwartz&dq=%22Learning+Perl%22+schwartz}}</ref> is a tutorial book for the [[Perl]] programming language, and is published by [[O'Reilly Media|O'Reilly]]. It was authored solely by [[Randal L. Schwartz]] in its first edition (1993). The second (1997) edition was coauthored with [[Tom Christiansen]] and the third (2001) edition was coauthored with Tom Phoenix. The fourth (2005), fifth (2008) and sixth (2011) editions were written by Schwartz, Phoenix, and [[brian d foy]]. According to the 5th edition of the book, previous editions have sold more than 500,000 copies.<ref>Learning Perl, 5th ed., p. 1</ref>

Unlike ''[[Programming Perl]]'', this book is aimed at computer programmers new to Perl. The publisher offers a free sample of the 4th Edition's Chapter Eleven<ref>[http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnperl4/chapter/ch11.pdf]</ref> as well as complete set of code examples presented in the 3rd Edition book.<ref>[http://examples.oreilly.com/learnperl4/]</ref>

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Brad Morrey, reviewing the book for [[Infoworld]], praises the book for its "casual, first person style" and concludes that it "is a terrific introduction to the language that will serve as a good reference book once you have read it through."<ref>{{cite news|work=[[Infoworld]]|title=Putting Perl to Work: Fine-tune your web development skills with this updated book|last=Morrey|first=Brad|date=August 3, 1998|accessdate=June 23, 2011|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=jlIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA75&dq=%22Learning+Perl%22+schwartz#v=onepage&q=%22Learning%20Perl%22%20schwartz&f=false|page=75}}</ref> In his [[Linux Journal]] review of ''Perl in a Nutshell'', Jan Rooijackers recommends that "If you are totally new to programming and you want to learn Perl, the book Learning Perl ... might be a better place to start."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3372|title=Perl in a Nutshell|last=Rooijackers|first=Jan|date=October 1, 1999|accessdate=June 23, 2011|work=[[Linux Journal]]}}</ref>

Discussing Schwartz' conviction, the [[New York Times]] noted that "Much of the Internet's World Wide Web has been built by programmers who got their start by reading his "Programming Perl" and "Learning Perl" books."<ref>{{cite news|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/27/business/technology-net-intel-computer-security-expert-runs-afoul-law-so-much-for-hacker.html|date=November 27, 1995|accessdate=June 23, 2011|last=Lewis|first=Peter H.|title=TECHNOLOGY: ON THE NET; An Intel computer security expert runs afoul of the law. So much for the 'hacker ethic'?}}</ref> Also reflecting in that case in ''Principles of Information Systems Security'', Gurpreet Dhillon calls ''Learning Perl'', "the definitive Perl instruction guide."<ref>{{cite book|title=Principles of Information Systems Security: text and cases|last=Dhillon|first=Gurpreet|year=2007|publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]]|page=196|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=mTkkAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Learning+Perl%22+schwartz&dq=%22Learning+Perl%22+schwartz|isbn=9780471450566978-0-471-45056-6|accessdate=June 23, 2011}}</ref> In ''Perl Medic'', author Peter Scott calls the book "the most common tutorial for learning Perl", but then criticizes its omission of hard references.<ref>{{cite book|last=Scott|first=Peter J.|title=Perl Medic: Transforming Legacy Code|page=150|year=2004|publisher=[[Addison-Wesley Professional]]|isbn=9780201795264978-0-201-79526-4|accessdate=June 23, 2011|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=fI1rpcK7jpgC&pg=PA150&dq=%22Learning+Perl%22+schwartz#v=onepage&q=%22Learning%20Perl%22%20schwartz&f=false}}</ref>

=== Later works ===

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== Editions ==

* First edition (1993; 274 pages; ISBN 1-56592-042-2<!-- unhyphenated version for search engines (possibly) ISBN 15659204221-56592-042-2 -->)

* Second edition (1997; 300 pages; covers Perl 5.004; ISBN 1-56592-284-0{{Null| unhyphenated version for search engines (possibly)|ISBN 15659228401-56592-284-0}})

* Third edition (2001; 330 pages; covers Perl 5.6; ISBN 0-596-00132-0<span style= "display:none; speak:none;"> unhyphenated version for search engines (possibly) ISBN 05960013200-596-00132-0</span>)

* Fourth edition (2005; 312 pages; covers Perl 5.8; ISBN 0-596-10105-8)

* Fifth edition (2008; 348 pages; covers Perl 5.10; ISBN 0-596-52010-7)

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*[http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920018452/ O'Reilly Online catalog: Learning Perl, 6th Edition]

*[http://oreilly.com/catalog/errata.csp?isbn=0636920018452 O'Reilly Learning Perl, 6th Edition errata]

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