ActiveState Perl Dev Kit 7.0: development and deployment of applications in Perl language

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27th March 2007

ActiveState Company announced the release of Perl Dev Kit (PDK) 7.0, a set of tools for developing and deploying of applications in Perl language. The programmers will have everything needed to elaborate a separate, easy to deploy executable files for various platforms. The enlarged list of functional capabilities includes the means of graphical debugger, tools for construction Perl-filters and the excellent mechanisms for converting scenarios VBScript to the program code in Perl. PDK version 7.0 has for the first time analytical tool Coverage Analyzer enabling you to evaluate the reliability and capability of application code. The application easily identifies untested and inefficient fragments of code, allowing the programmer to fix the error till the elaboration of the executed file. Besides Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX platforms the new version of PDK runs under operating Mac OS X, as well as 64-bit versions of Windows and Linux.