I don't know what "absolute best Perl interpreter" means, but an answer to the question I think you are asking is: use ActiveState's Komodo IDE. There is a modest cost for "home use", but if you are moderately serious about Perl (or any of the other languages it supports),then it is well worth the investment.

Its solution to your immediate problem (How do I see my output) is two fold: there is an output pane that shows the output from the script you are running and that stays around afterwards, and you may have Komodo open a console window when you run your script in which you can interact with the running script as you would from a commandline.

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re: Running scripts normally without using shell? by GrandFather
in thread Running scripts normally without using shell? by newbie

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