in reply to Re: Perl in the Enterprise
in thread Perl in the Enterprise

Well, I'll pick up on one thing mentioned here .. the snazzy IDE is very handy when you're still learning the language and are writing programs one line at a time. I consider myself more advanced than that, and write programs several paragraphs at a time. If I have a syntax error, it's because I mis-typed something, and not because I don't know how map works, for example.

Of course there's a lot more to a modern IDE than syntax checking. Decent refactoring support for example. Something I sorely miss in the Perl world. Fortunately nice people are working at making that better ;-)

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Re^3: Perl in the Enterprise
by wazoox (Prior) on May 23, 2006 at 13:21 UTC
    There's Devel::Refactor which does quite a nice job refactoring you code. I think it's integrated to EPIC, and I personnaly use it with NEdit and a quick macro.
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      There's Devel::Refactor which does quite a nice job refactoring you code

      Well, it does a nice job of extract method..... and that's it. Compared to what IntelliJ and Eclipse give the average Java developer that's not a lot :-)

      Fortunately Adam's work with PPI refactoring editor will hopefully open up more interesting possibilities in the future.

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        Well, I've installed Eclipse once, with EPIC, I launched it, and waited... waited... waited... Then it appeared. I dug around a bit, and decided that it's definetely too big, too slow for me (besides the fact that it sucks up 250MB or RAM). So I have absolutely no idea of what it may bring to the Java developer :)
        However, I'm eager to see all that PPI will bring us.
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