For a Perl n00b: Which Perl IDE to use?

[screw3d]

I found only one Open Perl IDE on google which is free.

Are there any free alternatives? Or this is the best there is and I should STFU and use it?

I'm a n00b on Perl BTW if that helps..

Thanks!

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Perl IDE? Heh. What's the point? Open a text editor and a shell and have at it.

 

[screw3d]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Perl IDE? Heh. What's the point? Open a text editor and a shell and have at it.

Could you please elaborate? Since I'm using Win XP, I don't have any shell access unless I upload the file to one of my webhost.

<-- remember - the n00b.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Then upload away... Or setup a web server on your machine and test locally.

 

[drag]

Perl is a scripting language intended for stuff like string manipulation and stuff like that... It's ancesters are stuff like awk and sed.

It's probably not sophisticated enough of a language to need a IDE or anything like that.

The most that 95% people use to make perl scripts with is something like Vim with a perl plugin or Emacs, which are both standard Unix programmer-style text editors with obscure key combinations as a arcane sort of user interface, developed out of the days of text only terminals and acoustic coupled modems.

Notepad is pretty much all you'll ever need.


(not that I ever have done much perl, actually about zero. A little awk here and there and that's about it.)

 

[screw3d]

Heh the point of requesting an IDE is so that I don't have to upload the file until it's done.

And yea.. I use emacs pretty often so I guess I'll just use that to edit my scripts.

 

[drag]

Maybe you can run Perl inside Cygwin on windows?

Edit:

Or maybe thru emulation using a small linux distro like Zipslack (100meg umsdos distro from slackware)