[oak perl] Questions from a Newbie

Belden Lyman blyman at iii.com
Tue Jan 20 19:11:54 CST 2004



George Woolley wrote:

> An old friend of mine from New York City
> has become interested in programming
> and Perl in particular.
> 
> At first he was asking questions
> that I could respond to based on my experience.
> He's enjoying reading about Perl,
> however he now wants to try it out
> on Windows.
> I take this to be a good omen, however ...
> 
> Unfortunately, I have never used Perl on Windows.
> His main questions seem to be:
> (1) What Perl should he download?

I'd grab 5.8.* from Activestate.

> (2) What's a good editor for maintaining his code?

Free for windows, with color syntax hilighting: gvim
http://gvim.org

> (3) Would it better to use an IDE? 
>       Which one?

I've got the $30 Komodo IDE from Activestate. The review
at http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/10/09/komodo.html inspired
me to try it, and I ended up buying it.

Belden




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