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NAME

perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.22 $, $Date: 2002/05/06 13:11:13 $)

DESCRIPTION

This section of the FAQ answers questions related to programmer tools and programming support.

• How do I do (anything)?
• How can I use Perl interactively?
• Is there a Perl shell?
• How do I debug my Perl programs?
• How do I profile my Perl programs?
• How do I cross-reference my Perl programs?
• Is there a pretty-printer (formatter) for Perl?
• Is there a ctags for Perl?
• Is there an IDE or Windows Perl Editor?
• The Object System
• Open Perl IDE
• GNU Emacs
• BBEdit and BBEdit Lite
• Where can I get Perl macros for vi?
• Where can I get perl-mode for emacs?
• How can I use curses with Perl?
• How can I use X or Tk with Perl?
• How can I generate simple menus without using CGI or Tk?
• How can I make my Perl program run faster?
• How can I make my Perl program take less memory?
• Is it unsafe to return a pointer to local data?
• How can I free an array or hash so my program shrinks?
• How can I make my CGI script more efficient?
• How can I hide the source for my Perl program?
• How can I compile my Perl program into byte code or C?
• How can I compile Perl into Java?
• How can I get #!perl to work on [MS-DOS,NT,...]?
• Can I write useful Perl programs on the command line?
• Why don't Perl one-liners work on my DOS/Mac/VMS system?
• Where can I learn about CGI or Web programming in Perl?
• Where can I learn about object-oriented Perl programming?
• Where can I learn about linking C with Perl? [h2xs, xsubpp]
• I've read perlembed, perlguts, etc., but I can't embed perl in my C program; what am I doing wrong?
• When I tried to run my script, I got this message. What does it mean?
• What's MakeMaker?

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