I can agree on that. Tried various other things in the past few years. Always went back to the ActiveState products.

Without trying to pitch a product here: At least from my point of view, the full ActivePerl Pro Studio is well worth the price. Having a fully grown IDE *and* Access to the Safari bookshelf saved me quite a lot of frustration. It's certainly not perfect, but it gets the job done.

What i certainly like most is the standard way in which debugging is handled. It's just like i'm used to from other IDEs, just click left of the code line where you want a breakpoint, run and the program stops there - and then you can look at (and modify) all variables.

If it's worth the price for you certainly depends. Do you only do Perl programming for a hobby a few hours a week or is it your job?

For me, i'm doing like 30 hours a week programming in my 40 hour a week job. Plus whatever i do in my spare time. So yeah, paying for a product that helps me isn't really a problem.

Don't use '#ff0000':
use Acme::AutoColor; my $redcolor = RED();
All colors subject to change without notice.

In reply to Re^2: Looking for a free Perl debugger. Padre/Epic doesnt seem to work. by cavac
in thread Looking for a free Perl debugger. Padre/Epic doesnt seem to work. by perl514

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