I was skimming some Perl6 info, (in particular http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/07/perl6.html), and I stumbled across the statement:
But not a lot seems to have happened to Perl in the last year. The last really interesting Perl development was probably POE, which won the "Best New Module" award at last year's Perl conference.

POE? What's that? If it's so great, it sounds like something I should learn about. So I looked it up in CPAN, and read the readme. It appears to assume I'm familiar with POE, but I did get this:
"POE" is an acronym for Perl Object Environment. This may change to Persistent Object Environment.

First and foremost, it is a programming framework for event-driven state machines.

POE includes high-level, functional interfaces for select, alarms, sockets and file I/O. The interfaces are robust but incomplete.

From different vantage points, POE may look like other things:

It may seem to be a cooperative multithreading model.
It may be interpreted as a portable component architecture.

Because it implements a low-level programming concept, POE can do many things.

I guess I'm just not familiar with the terminology of this low-level programming concept. It "can do many things". Can someone give me some examples?

In reply to Show me the missing Big Deal of POE. by swiftone

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