Several responses have mentioned some excellent texts for reference. I have not yet seen anyone recommend Mastering Algorithms with Perl by Jon Orwant, Jarkko Hietaniemi & John Macdonald which is an excellent introduction to theory using perl.

Sriram Srinivasan's book on Advanced Perl is now quite dated and needs an update (as do the perlxs and perlxstut pod pages).

Unfortunately (or fortunately :-) Perl's weak typing means that a lot of what goes into computer theory: data structures, algorithms, etc. is altogether too easy. Most of the other formal monographs on theory spend tens, or hundreds of lines of code just dealing with strong typing allocation, a subject that is only rarely broached with perl. Knuth's texts on TAOCP for example are written in MMIX, an assembler for the imaginary MIX hardware.

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