I asked this question a while ago and got a new reply.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1291931/what-are-the-most-important-features-of-an-ide-for-perl-development
See it here as well.
Gabor
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The question seems more debatable than answerable. Risking myself of
being accused copyright abuser, I will post a contents that I remember
from the book "Interactive programming environments" from David R.
Barstow, Howard E. Shrobe, Erik Sandewall.
It will not be exactly the same, as I have read the book many years
ago and I've jot down it in another language.
PRINCIPLES OF A GOOD INTERACTIVE PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT
1: Know the user
+ Know the previous knowledge and practice of the user
2: Minimize the memorization
+ Selection and not characters entering
+ Names and not numbers
+ Predictable behavior: the user should have a previous impression
of what the system will do
+ Possible access and changing of the parameters of the system
3: Optimization of operations
+ Fast execution of common operations
+ Inercy of visualization: the screen should change the less possible
+ Memorization of system operation in user,s memory
+ The meaning of specific operations should have a simple
relationship with the state of the system
+ The system must be prepared to accept more than 10 followed
commands per second, so that it can operate on the user,s
muscular memory
+ The system should be prepared to organize the parameters of a command
4: Engineer for the errors
+ Provide good error messages.
+ Engineer it to remove away the common errors.
+ The system should provide reversible actions.
+ Redundancy: the operations should have more than one way of being done.
+ Integrity of data structures.
-- sergiol
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