My preference is Perl Builder. I've bee using 1.0 forever and a day. Haven't bought an upgrade to 2.0 because, as minor as it is to some people, there is one usebility feature about it that is driving me nuts.... the auto-indent/outdent feature doesn't work exactly the same as it does on PB 1. (and I rely heavily on it when I'm working fast)
I'm used to it behaving a certain way, and on pb2, it doesn't...at least not always. Sometimes it works right, other times it doesn't. Sometimes it tabs in too far, or doesn't tab out correctly, or replaces my tabs with random amounts of spaces instead. It's obnoxious to me.
I've emailed the author several times providing examples. He's improved it with the latest (2.0b) but still hasn't fixed it (or responded to my email for that matter).
Too bad too, because there are new features in 2.0 that I want, but he's losing a $150 upgrade fee from me because I simply cannot work correctly in the environment with the tabs messed up (plus, it tends to screw up a lot of my formatting of existing scripts when I save them from PB2). To me this is a big thing, to others, it isn't a concern.
At any rate, you can download the demo version from
http://www.solutionsoft.com/perl.htm and try the 14 day evaluation. You then have to buy a copy to continue using it, if you like it.
I consider PB 1.0 to be the greatest thing ever. I just wish he would address my concerns in 2.0, as he has the stuff working in 1.0, but it broke in 2. No matter what I try with the settings, I can't get it to work perfectly all the time (which is why I know it's a bug..it works right sometimes, and not others).
--mark
hmmmm.. would be a great addition to our tutorials section.
