Editing Programming Perl (section)

==Editions==
* First edition (1991; 482 pages; covers Perl 4; {{ISBN|978-0-937175-64-4}})
* Second edition (1996; 670 pages; covers Perl 5.003; {{ISBN|978-1-56592-149-8}})
* Third edition (2000; 1104 pages; covers Perl 5.6; {{ISBN|978-0-596-00027-1}})
* Fourth edition (2012; 1184 pages; covers Perl 5.14; {{ISBN|978-0-596-00492-7}})

The second edition of the book was the best-selling book in the O'Reilly Media catalog in 1996, and one of the top 100 selling books in any category at [[Borders (retailer)|Borders]] in 1996.<ref>{{cite interview|url=https://www.econtalk.org/tim-oreilly-on-technology-and-work/|title=Tim O'Reilly on technology and work|interviewer=Russ Roberts|last=O'Reilly|first=Tim|subject-link=Tim O'Reilly|work=EconTalk|publisher=The Library of Economics and Liberty|date=5 October 2015|accessdate=12 March 2021|at=8:10-8:50}}</ref>

In 1998 the second edition was the 58th bestselling book at Amazon, just ahead of [[Bjarne Strousup]]'s [[The C++ Programming Language]] third edition.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1998 |title=Amazon Best Sellers of 1998 |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/1998/books/ref=zg_bsar_pg_2_books/ref=zg_bsar_pg_2_books?ie=UTF8&pg=2 |access-date=20 August 2024 |website=Amazon UK}}</ref>