OptiPerl will help you create CGI & console scripts in Perl, offline in Windows. It is a fully integrated visual developing environment and editor for creating, testing, debugging and running perl scripts, directly or through associated html documents.
Features include:
* Offline editing of Perl scripts in IDE.
* Complete emulation of a real server – scripts [...]
Perl 5 isn’t perfect, though, and some of its flaws are more apparent the closer Perl 6 comes to completion.
Perhaps the biggest imperfection of Perl 5 is its internals. Though much of the design is clever, there are also places of
obsolescence and interdependence, as well as optimizations that no one remembers, but no one [...]
As Adam Turoff explained once, Perl has two subtle advantages: manipulexity and whipuptitude. It’s very important to be able
to solve the problem at hand simply and easily without languages and tools and syntax getting in your way. That’s
whipuptitude. Manipulexity is the ability to use simple tools and build a sufficiently complex solution to a [...]
Perl 6 will likely also use its test suite as its primary specification, but as Larry Wall puts it, “We’re just trying to
start with the right tests this time.”
Even if the Perl 5 codebase did follow a specification, its design is inelegant in many places. It’s also very difficult to
expand. Many good ideas that [...]