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

You didn't specify which platform you're on, but on the Macintosh, TextMate is a very popular choice for Perl development. It's completely replaced Vim for me, and while it's not a full IDE, it's got alot of neat integrations in bundles specially targeted towards Perl development.