David Cantrell wrote: > xterms, search.cpan.org, and an editor are all the IDE I need*. > They're all I *want*.
Charlton Wilbur wrote: > This is all true, but I'd say, rather than condemning IDEs, that the > quality of the end result is independent of the quality of the tools, > but the overall pain is likely to be less with better tools. I agree with David -- I think the entire Perl ecosystem has been structured in such a way that the shell + editor + cpan approach just fits perfectly. I've never felt anything really "painful" in Perl development, certainly nothing an IDE would fix. With Java however I will slowly go insane trying to edit, build and manage even a fairly small project with those simple tools. A good Java IDE (read: Eclipse) certainly mitigates a lot of that insanity. Also, on print vs debugger in perl: I use a little trick to get "visual breakpoint" behavior from any editor. Just set $DB::single=1 wherever you want a breakpoint (you still have to run with perl -d of course). You can even do it conditionally: $DB::single=1 if $foo >= 42; -- Jeremy _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
