[Epo-members-announce] Adding Padre, the Perl IDE as and EPO project

[Jesse Sheidlower]

Nick expresses exactly what I was thinking about this issue.
So: What he said.

Jesse Sheidlower

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:03:12AM -0600, Nick Perez wrote:
> As a special member, I have the following thoughts:
> 
> And IDE is a good thing even though I would never use it. Others might
> find it useful. Developing hand-holding tools in order to introduce
> Perl to a wider audience is awesome. I myself have used VS,
> MonoDevelop, etc to develop on large scale applications, and it
> certainly helps to keep track of what modules do what and where. And
> when I was first learning C#, the IDE was an immense help. 
> 
> I favor EPO support for Padre so long as we don't limit ourselves to
> saying it is The One True Way, instead saying it is but one tool in the
> toolbox (or even the gateway drug that leads to other preferred editors
> such as vim or emacs).
> 
> And like mst said, I think if we refactored out the interesting editor
> bits so that they could be integrated into other tools that would be a
> big win
> 
> -- 
> 
> Nicholas Perez
> XMPP/Email: nick at nickandperla.net
> http://search.cpan.org/~nperez/
> http://github.com/nperez
> 
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