On Sun, 02 Sep 2001, Philip S Tellis spewed into the ether: <snip>
vim has a perl syntax colouring mode. You could use that. You shouldn't use pico for anything other than email really. You can execute through the shell itself, just use a different console.
With vi, or vim :perl /path/to/perl/script will do that for you. Or there may be another option for this in emacs.
Devdas Bhagat