So I am running on a MacBook Pro running Mac OS X. If I want to run perl scripts then I have to run them in the terminal right? But if I do that shouldn't limit me to what I have to run should? don't know, so thats why I am asking. Thanks in advance for any responses.
Yes, you'll probably need to run them from the terminal, although I wouldn't be surpised if you can set them up to run from the gui. I'm not sure I understand the rest of your post.