I am looking for tools to enhance productivity of a small group of perl developers, and I was considering ActiveState's Perl products. Does anybody here have any experience with them? Or if there are other tools to consider please share your experience with them.

I know the Komodo 2.0 (the Active State IDE) is quite new and I have read Simon Cozen's review, but it didn't really offer as much real world usage depth as I would like.

Our current development environment consists of cvs and emacs. Our development is mainly dynamic web content and site maintaince tools - lots of html and sql.

I'd like tools that allow us to work faster and generate more consistent code. (Who wouldn't :)

Thanks in advance for any experience you can share.

Edit: I should have made clear I have already downloaded the eval copy

-monkfish (The Fishy Monk)

In reply to Activestate Perl and the Komodo IDE by monkfish

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