I wrote a post last week talking about how outdated a lot of Perl seems to be, and the comments were full of people discussing it. One of the things mentioned repeatedly was chromatic‘s new book Modern Perl. I had seen several of the posts where he discussed the book on his blog and knew it was coming, but it was news to me that it was released
Not only is it released, but chromatic has graciously made the book available for download as PDF. His publisher has it as both letter-sized and A4 sized formats for print. It’s released under one of the Creative Commons (by-nc-nd) licenses so you can use it, share it, and distribute it freely and widely. The blog announcement mentioned above encourages you to do so. (more…)