First let me just put it out there: what’s in a name?

Affrus is a Perl IDE for OS X. Since I was assigned some Perl work today (my first “development” assignment in a long while), I decided to take it for a spin. I have to admit that I am not a heavy Perl user even though I can write scripts when I need to. Thus, I might not be the best qualified person to review this application.

That said, I found it pretty useful especially to help me refresh my Perl knowledge: debugging is really useful as is fast evaluation of expressions. The editor has some quirks (selection does not behave like common OS X apps) so it takes some time to get used to it.

I have used it only for a limited amount of time but I can already see its usefulness. All in all, it would be a product I would definitely consider buying if I was a heavier Perl user. However, I don’t use Perl often enough right now to justify paying $99 for it…

Violent from the album Danse Macabre by The Faint.

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