Two simple, easy questions

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

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Re: Two simple, easy questions - Perl tutorials and editors by moritz (Cardinal) on Nov 25, 2010 at 21:02 UTC
Please see perlintro and http://learn.perl.org/tutorials/. I don't use windows, but I've heard other people recommend Padre. Perl 6 - second systems done right	[reply]
Re: Two simple, easy questions by brengo (Acolyte) on Nov 25, 2010 at 21:03 UTC
A recently published free eBook is Modern Perl. Oh, and I loved the Perlmonks FAQ and especially the Perl documentation documentation. As a good, free editor (well, it's a full-blown development environment) I encourage you to look at Eclipse with the EPIC plugin.	[reply]
Re: Two simple, easy questions by davido (Cardinal) on Nov 25, 2010 at 22:33 UTC
The public library is free, and therein you will may find the Llama book, Learning Perl. That's the best book I know of for someone starting out with Perl. For editors, I happen to like SciTE. Look for it here: http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html. It's an open source project, and works great for a plethora of languages. It does syntax highlighting, of course, too. Dave	[reply]
Re: Two simple, easy questions by aquarium (Curate) on Nov 26, 2010 at 03:17 UTC
for editors..i like gvim, since you can do some good 'ol regex etc if you need to, on the perl itself, or on some data. you also get to practice regex. there's little if any need for an IDE for perl..so whatever text editor is most portable and comfortable for you, is the right one. the hardest line to type correctly is: stty erase ^H	[reply]
Re: Two simple, easy questions by umasuresh (Hermit) on Nov 25, 2010 at 21:04 UTC
1. Tutorials 2. Notepad++ with syntax highlighting.	[reply]
Re: Two simple, easy questions by hawtin (Prior) on Nov 26, 2010 at 08:38 UTC
Personally I use the Windows version of XEmacs (from http://ftp.xemacs.org/xemacs/binaries/win32/InnoSetup/). I find that the ability to define macros is invaluable, especially when manipulating large text files of information. And it doesn't interfere too much when I am writing Perl. Indeed the first thing I do when I get a new Windows machine is to install XEmacs, Cygwin and Perl (in that order). I realise that it's not to everyone's taste but it works for me.	[reply]
Re: Two simple, easy questions by samaniac (Initiate) on Nov 25, 2010 at 21:13 UTC
Thanks guys, will check those out and decide for myself.	[reply]