Re: Perl Programming within Debian

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

David Baron wrote:
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> With Windows, we bought a nice debugger--any one know of such a beast GPLed 
> under Linux? Being able to watch those vairables was a life-saver. A decent 
> IDE would be nice as well (For using .net, one has Microsoft's Visual Studion 
> in Windows--result can run in linux using mono). 

  there's ddd (apt-get install ddd) which is a GUI frontend for other 
debuggers, for perl it uses perl itself (perl has build-in debugger), 
it's fairly intuitive (in a sense that it has menus and dialogs for all 
common debugger functionality) and also gives you direct access to perl 
debugger.

  as far as IDE goes - xterms, vim or gvim (emacs?), etags etc. (as far 
as I can tell IDEs are mostly for environments where you don't have 
tools that play well together and no _good_ window managers)

	erik