POE stands for the Perl Object Environment (or maybe something else...).

It adds a lot of Tcl eventloop stuff to Perl (without anyone seemingly noticing how Tcl-like the stuff really is.

The idea: Use lots of discrete tasks (event handlers) instead of threading. Hmmm...

The site is down right now, but it is usually up at http://poe.perl.org .

It seems to have a lot of mindshare in the Perl world.

-- [Todd Coram]