[olug] Perl Debugger

[Dave Thacker]

On Thursday 12 June 2003 08:35, Jay Hannah wrote:
> "Jon H. Larsen" wrote:
> > Any recommendations for a GUI Perl debugger to run on Linux?
>
> I watched over a friends shoulder as he was playing around with Perl.NET
> in Visual Studio (Windows). We shared several "oh, that's kinda neat"
> moments. Colors, clickable breakpoints, syntax help, etc. It was all
> very slick. At first.
>
> I guess I'm old fashioned. I've just never liked GUI programming
> environments. When I know what I'm doing and am trying to get work done
> their constant "helpfulness" annoys me. I seem to be in the minority in
> this opinion: I've noticed over the last couple of years I even have to
> religiously turn syntax help off in programs that used to be *text*
> editors. Like a grumpy old man I grumble/curse and turn vi/vim's colors
>
> off:

Hey, you're ahead of my last boss, he used ed.

DT