CPAN Perl Editor

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

Hallo! I know nothing about Pearl but wish to learn. I am not even a programmer but a writer. I use an MS-Win-XP desktop. In Perl, I wish to begin by installing a Text Editor equipped with CPAN, so that I can create text tables. Could you please recommend one to me which runs under MS-Win? Thanks and regards, nikrof.

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Re: CPAN Perl Editor by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 24, 2011 at 10:16 UTC
I'm really not sure whether Perl will actually help you with whatever goal you're trying to reach, but you haven't stated any goal that I understand. Padre is a good text editor for Windows with good Perl (and CPAN) integration. I wonder what you mean by "text tables" - while Perl in itself is quite good at tabulating data, you will need to learn to write a program in Perl before it will be of any use to you.	[reply]

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Re: CPAN Perl Editor
by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 24, 2011 at 10:16 UTC

I'm really not sure whether Perl will actually help you with whatever goal you're trying to reach, but you haven't stated any goal that I understand.

Padre is a good text editor for Windows with good Perl (and CPAN) integration.

I wonder what you mean by "text tables" - while Perl in itself is quite good at tabulating data, you will need to learn to write a program in Perl before it will be of any use to you.

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