While trying to figure out an accurate way of counting the number of lines in the various tools my organization uses, I came across Eclipse Integegrated Development Environment. While I’m an Eclipse n00b, I’m starting to see that it’s what I’ve been looking for, but didn’t know what to call it (IDE).

Obviously, it’s open source (GPL), I wouldn’t even mention it if it weren’t. I also came across an article by Matt Enzer Perl Needs Better Tools about Perl IDE’s (specifically EPIC) to help curb the rate at which people are moving away from Perl in the med-large organization. Mainly, it’s lack of a good IDE (I know, VIM rocks, but this is pretty easy once you know how).