On Sunday 05 May 2002 4:25 pm, Michael Kovary wrote: > anyone know of a free perl IDE for linux or windows? Also come good > documentation would be nice to get started.
When I used Windows (!) the best was Open Source: http://open-perl-ide.sourceforge.net/ It has excellent documentation built in. For Linux you have one right in front of you installed as part of the Mandrake distribution; I haven't started with it in earnest yet, but KDevelop looks good and isn't just for C++ (there's syntax highlighting built in for Perl, and much else; I would use Python). Perl has probably the best documentation online of any language. Two sources are: http://www.perl.com/pub/q/documentation http://www.perldoc.com/ The classic 'starting off with Perl' printed source is the 'llama book', Beginning Perl by Schwartz and Phoenix: <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596001320/ref=pd_sim_books/103-2333940-9858206> Once you get going the 'camel book', Programming Perl by Wall, Christiansen and Orwant, is a (big) step up: <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596000278/qid=1020620581/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_71_1/103-2333940-9858206> Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/
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