Hi!
Thank you for your reply.
To offer a different perspective, I love git and I'm very happy with vim as my editor. I also prefer common::sense rather than strict and warnings.
Nothing against vim ... I'm just talking about users who come from a non-Unix background (Windows or OS X). When I first started using Perl under Windows, I was grateful for eshell and the respective output windows provided by Emacs.
In case someone wants to use vim under Windows to edit Perl, I would recommend installing MSYS - the Windows DOS box has too many limits.
Finally, when you're new to Perl, it's tempting just to write everything yourself. You'll burn up lots of cycles that way -- check CPAN instead and see if there's a module that does that already. You never know until you look.
Fine - as soon as students work at home, they're free to download and use any module they want.
In a computer lab, however, restrictions similar to those discussed in Yes, even you can use CPAN apply: even when your disk quota is high enough to install CPAN modules locally, your instructor might want you to solve a given problem yourself.

In reply to Re^2: RFC: How to succeed with your Perl homework by angiehope
in thread RFC: How to succeed with your Perl homework by angiehope

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