in reply to Visual Perl for Unix/Linux

From looking at the other replies, and thinking about VB, the problem splits into two:

I've had a fair amount of success using ZooZ (free from CPAN) for designing Tk forms. There are a number of IDEs available that you can use with perl, but I don't use any of them so I can't comment on what's best (or free).

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