<s>
Padre	B-Language
(	O
short	O
for	O
"	O
Perl	B-Language
Application	O
Development	O
and	O
Refactoring	O
Environment	O
"	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
multi-language	O
software	B-Application
development	I-Application
platform	I-Application
comprising	O
an	O
IDE	B-Application
and	O
a	O
plug-in	B-Application
system	O
to	O
extend	O
it	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
written	O
primarily	O
in	O
Perl	B-Language
and	O
is	O
used	O
to	O
develop	O
applications	O
in	O
this	O
language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Padre	B-Language
is	O
written	O
in	O
Perl	B-Language
5	O
but	O
can	O
be	O
extended	O
by	O
any	O
language	O
running	O
on	O
top	O
of	O
the	O
Parrot	B-Language
virtual	I-Language
machine	I-Language
,	O
such	O
as	O
Raku	B-Application
,	O
through	O
its	O
plug-in	B-Application
system	O
and	O
its	O
integration	O
with	O
Parrot	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
development	O
officially	O
started	O
in	O
June	O
2008	O
but	O
Padre	B-Language
has	O
reused	O
components	O
that	O
have	O
been	O
available	O
on	O
CPAN	B-Language
,	O
and	O
the	O
latest	O
version	O
of	O
Padre	B-Language
is	O
itself	O
always	O
available	O
on	O
CPAN	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Most	O
importantly	O
,	O
it	O
uses	O
the	O
Perl	B-Language
bindings	O
of	O
wxWidgets	B-Language
for	O
the	O
windowing	O
system	O
,	O
and	O
PPI	O
to	O
correctly	O
parse	O
and	O
highlight	O
Perl	B-Language
and	O
to	O
allow	O
refactoring	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
primary	O
advantages	O
of	O
Padre	B-Language
for	O
Perl	B-Language
developers	O
is	O
that	O
full	O
and	O
easy	O
access	O
to	O
the	O
source	O
code	O
of	O
their	O
editor	O
is	O
available	O
,	O
and	O
a	O
unique	O
set	O
of	O
"	O
Perl	B-Language
intuition	O
"	O
features	O
that	O
allow	O
the	O
IDE	B-Application
to	O
understand	O
details	O
about	O
project	O
structure	O
and	O
content	O
without	O
needing	O
to	O
be	O
told	O
by	O
the	O
user	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Padre	B-Language
employs	O
plug-ins	B-Application
in	O
order	O
to	O
provide	O
all	O
of	O
its	O
functionality	O
on	O
top	O
of	O
the	O
runtime	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
All	O
the	O
functionality	O
except	O
the	O
core	O
Perl	B-Language
5	O
support	O
is	O
implemented	O
as	O
plug-ins	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Padre	B-Language
has	O
plug-ins	B-Application
for	O
HTML	B-Language
and	O
XML	B-Protocol
editing	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
plug-in	B-Application
mechanism	O
is	O
a	O
lightweight	O
framework	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
addition	O
to	O
allowing	O
Padre	B-Language
to	O
be	O
extended	O
using	O
other	O
programming	O
languages	O
,	O
the	O
plug-in	B-Application
framework	O
allows	O
Padre	B-Language
to	O
work	O
with	O
networking	O
applications	O
such	O
as	O
telnet	B-Protocol
,	O
and	O
database	B-Application
management	I-Application
systems	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
plug-in	B-Application
architecture	O
supports	O
writing	O
any	O
desired	O
extension	O
to	O
the	O
environment	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
for	O
configuration	B-General_Concept
management	I-General_Concept
,	O
version	O
control	O
systems	O
(	O
Subversion	B-Application
,	O
Git	B-Application
)	O
support	O
,	O
etc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Padre	B-Language
's	O
widgets	O
are	O
implemented	O
by	O
wxWidgets	B-Language
,	O
an	O
open	O
source	O
,	O
cross-platform	B-Operating_System
toolkit	O
written	O
in	O
C++	B-Language
.	O
</s>
