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cosmicperl has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi All,
  I've been coding Perl in TextPad on Windows for the last few years. This is just an advanced text editor, certainly not something geared up for working with Perl. I was on ActiveState today and see that they now offer a free Perl IDE called Komodo Edit. I also came across http://open-perl-ide.sourceforge.net/

As you guys generally know what's what and the best of everything, I was wondering what you guys are using, what's free, what isn't and what's best.

I'm sure if I start using a good IDE then my coding speed will be improved.

Thanks
Lyle Hopkins

Update: I now use Komodo IDE and Padre for all my Perl coding. I find Padre is ideal for the Learn Perl course that I run.