> Most long time Perl programmers will scoff at IDEs, but the lack of > tools is part of the problem of Perl not being accepted by the corporate > IT community. Of course it is also a catch-22. Without a critical mass > of users, there isn't a financial incentive for companies to develop > such tools. Whether open source plug-ins for Eclipse can bridge the gap, > who knows. (Thanks to Duane Bronson for mentioning that there is a Perl > plug-in for Eclipse. I had been wondering, and asked a few people, but > wasn't aware that it existed.)
Eclipse with the EPIC perl plugin is a real joy to write perl in. I was never one for IDEs, doing most of my coding in emacs and vi, but I would highly recommend checking Eclipse/EPIC out if you haven't already. One of the biggest issues for me with regard to IDEs was the lack of a cross-platform solution. I didn't want to have to switch my editor between home (linux) and work (win32). Eclipse is nice in that it's identical on both. Eclipse is also really, really nice for developing in java. Better than it is at perl. It also has nice revision control integration (at least with perforce, I haven't gotten the subversion integration working at home). Even if you've not been a fan of IDEs, I would encourage people to give Eclipse a week. andy _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
