Re: Perl Needs Better Tools

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).

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Re^2: Perl Needs Better Tools by adrianh (Chancellor) on Aug 26, 2005 at 22:44 UTC
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. And this was the point of the article :-) Perl IDEs are not as useful as those in other languages. See my brief rant for an example of the time you could be saving. 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 That'll be Ruby and Perl 6 :-)	[reply]
Re^2: Perl Needs Better Tools by sir_lichtkind (Friar) on Aug 26, 2005 at 22:09 UTC
spiritway++, but >They were nice, and the access to some of the documentation was marginally better, >but really it made almost no difference. that only tells me that the IDE's are not very evolved	[reply]