Hi Parag! In addition to what Shawn said, here is what I know.
On Wednesday 23 Dec 2009 14:53:51 Parag Kalra wrote: > Hello All, > > Uptil now I have been coding fairly simple Perl scripts. > > Lately I have started designing some complex scripts. And I always felt > that if you place the logic and flow of the script on paper first then > coding part is simplified to a great extent. And uptil now I have mainly > used pen and paper for it. :) > > Was just wondering if there is any graphical tool (of course opensource :)) > specific to Perl to design the flow of the Perl script projects before we > actually start coding it. I'm not aware of any tools specific to Perl, at least not open-source. However, there are some more generic tools that can be used for Perl code. > > Using it I should be able to design something similar to flowcharts and > should be able to share it with others to get it reviewed. > > So just wanted to know which tool does Perl developers use in general to > design the flow of the Perl projects. > Well, I personally am aware of the following: 1. http://www.inkscape.org/ - a wonderful drawing program, but may not be very suitable for diagrams. In a very good shape and under active development. You should check it out and play with it anyway because it's very useful. 2. http://projects.gnome.org/dia/ - a diagram editor (similar to Visio) that can do UML diagrams. Has many quirks and missing features, and has been suffering from a lot of neglect. It still may be of some use though. 3. http://www.koffice.org/kivio/ - similar to Dia only part of the KDE project. Haven't really taken a look at it for a long time. 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unified_Modeling_Language_tools - contains a list to many open source UML programs. Don't know if any of them support Perl, but you can always create a UML diagram and then translate it to Perl manually. -------------------- I should note that I've only tried using Dia and Inkscape for some simple diagrams so far. I don't normally draw extensive diagrams for my code, and just let it evolve "organically" - with a lot of mental design, refactoring and maybe some informal diagrams. Shawn's point about data-structures vs. algorithms is instructive, especially considering: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral- bazaar/ar01s06.html (short URL - http://xrl.us/bgq2zj ). The tools I mentioned should allow you to model data-structures too, though. Regards, Shlomi Fish > Cheers, > Parag > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Best Introductory Programming Language - http://shlom.in/intro-lang Bzr is slower than Subversion in combination with Sourceforge. ( By: http://dazjorz.com/ ) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
