perl development question (general)

Hi all,

I’ve just taken over a (very new) small website and I’d like to add perl to my programming skills.

Since I’ve never worked cross-platform before (I’m more of a hardware person), I’d like to know if I can develop source on a Wintel machine to run on a hosted Linux server?

What packages would you folks suggest I use to work with? I was looking at ActiveState’s ActivePerl. Comments, suggestions???