What's a good development environment for Perl?

Question

I develop applications using PHP or Java and will study Perl for the first time.

For PHP and Java, there are integrated development environments such as Eclipse, and

Answer 1

Perl has very good debugging support. Read perldoc perldebug for details.

There are a bunch of IDEs such as ActiveState's Komodo, EPIC etc but I prefer to combine GVim (see also .vimrc for Perl programmers) with the command line. Others prefer Emacs.