Affrus
Regular readers will know that Iâm learning Perl, and always on the lookout for good books, tutorials or tools to help me along. So I was quite excited to see it mentioned on TidBITS that Late Night Software have just brought out a Perl editor and debugger called Affrus. I know that many Perl aficionados maintain that you donât need an IDE for Perl, but the fact that the question is a FAQ on Perldoc.com suggests that many people still want one.
Itâs true that with use strict; and use warnings; you get a pretty good idea where your code is going wrong. Thereâs also perldebug which gives you all the debugging functions you are ever likely to want, albeit with a rather intimidating command line interface. BBEdit has excellent Perl support (including the ability to run a script and see the output, and to look up the documentation for functions in perldoc), as do vi or vim if you use the appropriate plugins. But I was curious to see what else it could offer, and downloaded the demo.
