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]

For a different solution to the same problem (hey,  it's perl),  see Stem

http://search.cpan.org/author/URI/stem-0.10/

Less mature (though it's based on a company-funded internal project),  not as much mindshare,  but (according to Stemsystem's Uri) much less plumbing required for extension. 

[JJS]

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