G+_Timothy Suhr Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 Episode 21 was a great start. Would have liked more about differences between the two versions of perl that were shown. Still hope you cover Padre the Perl IDE. Another topic should be CPAN. Keep up the good work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Neil Tsubota Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 What does PERL IDE mean ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Joe C. Hecht Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 The Perl IDE? Perhaps "A Perl IDE"? Using Active State Perl as the default Perl for the show sadly means make a "using CPAN" episode almost impossible (for newbies anyway). It would be more like a "Using PPM - Search CPAN, find what you want, search PPM for the same thing, and go break it" episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Timothy Suhr Posted June 14, 2014 Author Share Posted June 14, 2014 While the main focus of Padre is to provide excellent support for both beginner and advanced Perl developers. It can provide syntax highlighting to most of the languages out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Joe C. Hecht Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 Interesting. It will be difficult to get me to change from Notepad++, only because I use it so much for so many different languages, but the Padre editor looks cool http://padre.perlide.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Timothy Suhr Posted June 15, 2014 Author Share Posted June 15, 2014 PADRE FEATURES Customizable syntax highlightingfor many languages and visual editor effects Syntax checking for Perl 5 and Perl 6 Refactoring tools for Perl 5 and Perl 6 Context sensitive help and code completion Beginner-friendly Extra features for advanced programmers Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS XFree and Open Source under the "Perl license"Written in Perl 5 ... list of features? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Joe C. Hecht Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 I did take the time to check our the package. Very impressive, but still needs a bit of work. Looking at the release dates, it appears it when though a recent push to get it out of beta, then had a 1.2(?) corrective release. The release push reminded me of the Lazarus project. I looked at the entire (Windows) distro that included Strawberry perl, since the ActiveState modules do not yet support my version. I believe the bundle still ships with a 0.9x beta version IDE, no? I am tempted to try some of the other Distos. That says a lot. The bundling was sweet. To be fair in my critique, I must admit that am a former Borland guy, hailing from the Delphi group, so having my name stamped into the team's about box means I do know a bit about how an IDE should work. OK. I came away impressed, and even felt a little at home. The interface options seemed to be close to NotePad++ (my text editor of choice). The bundled IDE's functionality (still a beta I believe) was a bit rough, but shows a LOT of promise, and appears to be future worthy of replacing not only Notepad++, but several IDE's as well. It appears like Padre may be even expanding support into other languages... That would be sweet for someone like myself who juggles many languages at the same time. For me, that is where the syntax highlighting counts. Help support (for me) is not really important, but I can sure see how it would be very important for those who have not yet memorized all the programming language guides. To be really fair in my assessment, I must say my editing requirements are very steep. I often have as many as 96 virtual machines running, each compiling code in many languages and on different operating systems. Given that, I still came away a bit impressed with Padre. File support was very promising. The bundling with Perl was a nice touch, but for me, I would like to see more effort in interfacing a standalone editions, and that is probably not the biggest draw, and is also probably one of the biggest headaches to pull off. This is going to be a great package for beginners, and eventually, power users as well. I am thinking the next release may well hit the mark, and Padre seems to be well worth keeping on the radar. No doubt, a lot of work went into Padre, and the package is very close to becomming a shining star. Thanks for the pointer. TJoe - Code4Sale LLC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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