Affrus: Coding Perl in Mac OS X

CGIDir
Thursday, April 20, 2006; 04:51 AM

Affrus 1.0 is an integrated Perl editing and debugging environment for Mac OS X that wraps Perl in a standard, familiar, and intuitive user interface. It's the perfect center for all your Perl development needs on Mac OS X. Whether you're just beginning to experiment with Perl and want an easy way to get your feet wet, or you're a Perl expert wishing to understand and hack into a vast body of existing code, Affrus is for you.

The Affrus editor is tailored to the Perl language. It provides syntax coloring, identifier indexing, and a host of other editing tools to make Perl development faster. Affrus integrates with Bare Bones Software's BBEdit and TextWranger for those who prefer to edit in these tools.

Affrus presents a full-featured graphical debugger tuned to the needs of Perl programmers. The debugger features step-wise execution, breakpoints, tracing, and expression evaluation as well as stack frame tracing with full access to locally scoped (my) variables. The debugger also displays all Perl registers and variables from any Package.

Affrus 1.0 is now available. It retails for US$99 for electronic delivery, and US$109 (plus shipping) on CD-ROM.

Affrus 1.0 for the Macintosh requires the following software and hardware:

• Any Power Macintosh -- G4 or G5 Processor recommended
• 15MB hard disk space
• CD-ROM drive
• Mac OS X 10.2 or later
• Perl 5.6 or Perl 5.8