[pm-h] Programmer Editors (was 'January Meeting')
G. Wade Johnson
gwadej at anomaly.org
Mon Jan 5 04:51:02 PST 2009
On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 01:06:09 -0600
"Kevin Shaum" <kevin at shaum.com> wrote:
> <unlurk>
>
[snip]
>
> I think IDEs aren't as popular with Perl devs (and maybe Python &
> Ruby) as they are with Java and .Net devs because (a) scripting
> languages are more concise, so we don't need as much help with the
> heavy lifting, and (b) despite ActiveState's best efforts, there's no
> IDE that groks Perl (etc) the way Eclipse and Visual Studio do their
> primary languages.
I'm keeping an eye on both Kephra and Padre. These two projects are
available on CPAN and are both trying for a cross-platform IDE for Perl.
G. Wade
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