=head1 NAME
-perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.18 $, $Date: 2002/04/09 17:11:16 $)
+perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.21 $, $Date: 2002/04/28 15:51:10 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
( http://helpconsulting.net/visiperl/ )
From Help Consulting, for Windows.
+=item OptiPerl
+
+( http://www.optiperl.com/ ) is a Windows IDE with simulated CGI
+environment, including debugger and syntax highlighting editor.
+
=back
For Windows there's also the
If you are using MacOS, the same concerns apply. MacPerl
(for Classic environments) comes with a simple editor.
Popular external editors are BBEdit ( http://www.bbedit.com/ )
-or Alpha ( http://alpha.olm.net/ ). MacOS X users can use Unix
-editors as well.
+or Alpha ( http://www.kelehers.org/alpha/ ). MacOS X users can
+use Unix editors as well.
=over 4
For "big" data stores (i.e. ones that exceed available memory) consider
using one of the DB modules to store it on disk instead of in RAM. This
-will incur a penalty in access time, but that's probably better that
+will incur a penalty in access time, but that's probably better than
causing your hard disk to thrash due to massive swapping.
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