Why do I want an IDE for Perl

I was asked (Gabor – thanks) to explain why do I actually need an IDE for Perl.

The short answer is –
To run my little Perl/TK program from inside the editor, and Debugging.

Details:

• First – a little background:
  I’m not an experienced programmer. I mean –  not in the sense of using major “heavy” languages like Java, C++/ C# or C and others.  (I know just a little of those… ).

• Second – A specific example:
  I do know know some Perl and use it at my daily work – to process textual files.
  So I wrote a Perl/TK thing on my PC  – to process a textual bibliographic files and add certain fixed bibliographic fields.
  It’s Windows XP that I have at work.
  So for editing my scripts –  I use Vim, which is nice and colorful  just like in various Unixes .
  BUT For running – I currently use ActivePerl 5.10.0.1003 .

  The “coding” is separated from the code testing and debugging.

• Now –  people around me at work use Visual Studio for C++ to develop a GUI application.
  So … Why won’t I use something like this to improve my little Perl/TK program?

  What I do now is trial and error:
  I edit the script / program in Vim but run it separately (done by ActivePerl when I double click it) and not from inside the editor.

And that’s where I need an IDE.

Vim is great – but IDE can stop the run in a breakpoint, so it saves a lot of debugging time.