This article seems to suggest that Perl will stand or fall based on whether it has a nice IDE. Personally, I think its future will depend on its usefulness, not any IDE's that may be written for it. I've used a couple of IDE's for Perl (PerlIDE and Komodo Personal), and they did nothing to help me program better. They were nice, and the access to some of the documentation was marginally better, but really it made almost no difference.

Perl is likely to do just fine, with or without an IDE, as long as it remains useful. I cannot imagine it becoming obsolete any time soon, unless someone comes up with a killer language that's a whole lot friendlier than Java (for example).

In reply to Re: Perl Needs Better Tools by spiritway
in thread Perl Needs Better Tools by itub

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