Perl programs are just plain text, so any editor will do.
-If you're on Unix, you already have an IDE--Unix itself. The Unix
+If you're on Unix, you already have an IDE--Unix itself. The UNIX
philosophy is the philosophy of several small tools that each do one
thing and do it well. It's like a carpenter's toolbox.
nvi ( http://www.bostic.com/vi/ , available from CPAN in src/misc/) is
yet another vi clone, unfortunately not available for Windows, but in
-Unix platforms you might be interested in trying it out, firstly because
+UNIX platforms you might be interested in trying it out, firstly because
strictly speaking it is not a vi clone, it is the real vi, or the new
incarnation of it, and secondly because you can embed Perl inside it
to use Perl as the scripting language. nvi is not alone in this,
research purposes), Cygwin is covered by the GNU General Public
License (but that shouldn't matter for Perl use). The Cygwin, MKS,
and U/WIN all contain (in addition to the shells) a comprehensive set
-of standard Unix toolkit utilities.
+of standard UNIX toolkit utilities.
If you're transferring text files between Unix and Windows using FTP
be sure to transfer them in ASCII mode so the ends of lines are
Perl2Exe ( http://www.indigostar.com/perl2exe.htm ) is a command line
program for converting perl scripts to executable files. It targets both
-Windows and Unix platforms.
+Windows and unix platforms.
=head2 How can I get C<#!perl> to work on [MS-DOS,NT,...]?
The C<ExtUtils::MakeMaker> module, better known simply as "MakeMaker",
turns a Perl script, typically called C<Makefile.PL>, into a Makefile.
-The Unix tool C<make> uses this file to manage dependencies and actions
+The unix tool C<make> uses this file to manage dependencies and actions
to process and install a Perl distribution.
-=head1 REVISION
-
-Revision: $Revision$
-
-Date: $Date$
-
-See L<perlfaq> for source control details and availability.
-
=head1 AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-Copyright (c) 1997-2009 Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington, and
+Copyright (c) 1997-2010 Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington, and
other authors as noted. All rights reserved.
This documentation is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify it