Yes, combine emacs's compilation mode with GNU make and you have an IDE that you can't outgrow and that will handle whatever you want to use next after perl and C.<br><br>vi and xterms (or screen windows or whatever) is great too, partially precisely because it is not integrated. The danger of an IDE is that you can wind up learning all the IDE-specific stuff that has no general relevance without necessarily ever understanding what's really going on. By tying your skills to an IDE you're making your strengths more delicate---what happens if you want to work in an environment that just has vi and make? When you use vi and make all the time you know what you're doing by necessity, because you have to arrange for every step that occurs when you create the software, and you do not introduce extraneous dependencies on tools that aren't ubiquitous.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 6:04 PM, JD <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com" target="_blank">jdp@algoloma.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 05/07/2012 12:44 PM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:<br>
> Anyone suggest an IDE that they use that works well with perl and C?<br>
<br>
</div>Geany is a lite-IDE. I use it for perl all the time. Haven't done C in a while,<br>
but it has all the hooks for that assuming gcc and gmake. Made a quick "hello"<br>
program and it compiled, linked and ran perfectly in Geany. There are plugins<br>
for all sorts of other needs ... like gdb. Geany is **not** a java program.<br>
<br>
Emacs? Someone had to say it. ;)<br>
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