Re: Need some Help with Advocacy re: Java vs. Perl

[Vicki Brown]

At 2:51 AM -0400 6/15/00, Adam Turoff wrote:
>>  Yes, but does Perl have an IDE,
>
>And if that's not enough, occasionally when people say
>"IDE" they mean "Syntax Coloring".  Many vi clones and emacs
>(and BBEdit?) support that, so add them to the list.

BBEdit definitely supports syntax coloring as well as running Perl 
from within the BBEdit environment, Perl "filters" to run against the 
editor window contents, etc. There's integrated "help" (select a 
keyword, press the magic key combination, read the online-doc for 
that keyword...

I'd call it a Perl IDE for Mac OS. In fact, I did recently...
(See my article on the subject in PerlMonth
http://www.perlmonth.com/columns/mac_perl/mac_perl.html?issue=7 :-)
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