Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm tired of having to invoke Perl to handle simple tasks from the other shells that I use. Is there a good, stable, useful Perl shell?

I would appreciate pointers to shells other than psh which I found on search.cpan.org and/or first hand experience with the shells themselves.

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Re: Tired of (t?c)zbash
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 22, 2000 at 07:44 UTC
    pgshell, a very simple perl program which was built to help with Gimp. Gimp has a perl server so having a command line where you can type perl commands and have them execute in the Gimp's image processing windows is the best way to confirm whether things will work as you expect them to. It is basically just using Term::Readline and an eval block. I modified it for my own use to let you type/paste in a several line long perl program or code block using start and end tags.

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Re: Tired of (t?c)zbash
by brother ab (Scribe) on Sep 22, 2000 at 11:25 UTC

    Would you be more specific - what features of Perl-shell do you need? Why are you unhappy with psh?

    I use psh with Data::Walker for debugging my modules, instead of writing little temporal scripts especially for testing purposes.

    -- brother ab
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      I mentioned psh so that I didn't get a flood of answers saying "Have you seen psh?"

      What I'm looking for are opinions of people who use Perl shells daily and would be willing to share objective opinions about their experience. What shells are there? Are they really useful, or mere toys?

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