Perl Developer's Guide - EdPescho? and MicheleDeWolfe?
An Applications Development Book from McGrawHill?
Covers Perl 5.6 - "The reach of Perl is astounding. You can write a one-million-line project in Perl, yet write a meaningful one line script. You can write interfaces into other packages, and several people have: including interfaces to Mathematica, Microsoft IIs server, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Java, Win32, XML -- anything in fact with a C backend." -- foreward
PerlDevelopersGuide ISBN 0072126302 , 985 pages - comes with CD with Perl 5.6, installation tools and all the book's source code.