sriram83.life has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Presently, I am downloading strawberry perl as larry wall said that he uses strawberry perl.Does it come with an IDE?. If not,please suggest me an IDE to write and compile perl programs.

Thanks,

Sriram

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Re: which perl IDE should i use on windows?
by dasgar (Priest) on Mar 09, 2014 at 20:25 UTC

    Strawberry Perl does not come with an IDE.

    If you're not needing/wanting the latest version of Perl, you can get DWIM Perl, which includes Padre. Padre is an IDE written in Perl. However, DWIM Perl is based on Strawberry Perl 5.14.2.1 (32-bit).

      Strawberry Perl does not come with an IDE.... DWIMPerl

      but Padre is perfectly and easily installable with strawberryperl , after all DWIMPerl is just strawberryperl, so  cpan Padre and you get it

Re: which perl IDE should i use on windows?
by basiliscos (Pilgrim) on Mar 09, 2014 at 23:19 UTC

    Perl is very dynamic and context-sensitive language, so IDE will not help you a much. Comparing, for example with Java, in Perl you shouldn't write a tons of code every day.

    So, syntax hi-lighting is generally enough. You can use Notepad++, or EPIC to catch the syntax errors "on type".

      I am sorry if i resume this old conversation but why you say that we should not write code every day
Re: which perl IDE should i use on windows?
by bcarroll (Pilgrim) on Mar 10, 2014 at 01:35 UTC
    I recommend getting the Eclipse IDE and adding the EPIC plugin.
    Eclipse includes a Market Place, which is like an "App Store" for adding plugins/add-ons and other enhancements, one of which is the EPIC IDE.

    EPIC adds code completion, live syntax checking, and a bunch of other features that make writing programs (and Perl modules) much easier.

    Eclipse also includes Remote Systems Explorer (RSE) which gives integrated access to all of your remote systems (UNIX,Linux,Mac and Windows). You can edit/save/run remote files directly in the Eclipse IDE. RSE includes built in support (using putty) for SSH/SFTP so you can copy/paste files to remote machines.

Re: which perl IDE should i use on windows?
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 09, 2014 at 18:51 UTC
Re: which perl IDE should i use on windows?
by Lennotoecom (Pilgrim) on Mar 09, 2014 at 20:33 UTC
    yes, yes it comes with an IDE
    Start->run->notepad.exe
    ^ ^