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

It adds a lot of [Tcl] [event loop] 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...

POE' website is http://poe.perl.org/ .

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

-- [Todd Coram]

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

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

Less mature,  not as much mindshare,  and geared slightly more towards network-transparent message-passing (vs POE's event loop approach). According to the author, it's architecturally more straightforward and easier to extend.


[JJS]

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