I just bought a book a little while ago to learn Perl. What software program should I use to write my programs in and test them?

To write: vi
To run: perl......

Pretty simple....

To test... not sure. I always just used where I was hosted at. A bit of a pain re-uploading though.

To edit/creat I use EditPad from jgsoft.com. I use classic because that's all there was when I first got it and I can't get myself used to the lite or pro versions now, but I'm sure any of the versions would suffice. :)

To write: vi

What is this and where do I get it?

vi is a text editor and is more than likely installed on your server. Just use the command "vi filename" to open a file and edit it.

Can you use notepad to edit perl.

Originally posted by robjwilson
Can you use notepad to edit perl.

Yes, you can use anything pretty much. Here are my recommendations... For Linux I suggest pico, though vi is just as good. For Windows I suggest EditPlus (http://www.editplus.com).

I use EditPlus to code in and I just test on my hosts.

To start learning cgi and perl, http://www.cgi101.com/ is the best.

I always use notepade to write scripts, and once in a while I use editpad just for its find & replace feature.

i've also been trying to learn more about programming recently, and in my search (because i hate uploading and re-uploading to the server each time i want to test a script) i found this: phpTriad (http://www.phpgeek.com/)

this program was made to make installing apache/perl/php/mysql on a windows OS easy, it took me less than 2 minutes to install. if you know your stuff you could probably install these things yourself.. i tried, but failed :o but i blame it on my lack of knowledge in windows :stickout

i use EditPad to edit my scripts and other code, free and makes it easy to have a thousand files open at once without hogging the space on your taskbar/desktop.

For Windows, EditPlus 2 is about as good as you can get for any type of programming.. and, it's free for 30 days.

Check it out: www.editplus.com

Matt

I would recommend EditPlus for Windows as well. I have been using it for over a year and I'm very happy with it.

I use NotePad but now i'm moving to EditPlus (Affordable price $30)

I recommend 'Perl Builder'

Originally posted by Lonny
I recommend 'Perl Builder'

Hah!

Emacs rocks!

Originally posted by The Prohacker
To write: vi


I always considered vi a form of terrorism.