Good morning!

POE was written for a particular need (a VM for a multitasking, multi-user object repository and runtime environment), and it turned into something that lives in an area of computational theory that I didn't know a whole lot about. Documenting it has been really hard.

About examples: POE's distribution includes about 300KB of examples and tutorials. See the twenty-some programs in its samples/ directory and their summaries in the main POE manpage.

The big deal? I don't know enough to say, but here's a list of links which may help explain some concepts:

If you figure it out first, let me know! :)

-- Rocco Caputo / troc@netrus.net

In reply to Re: Show me the missing Big Deal of POE. by Anonymous Monk
in thread Show me the missing Big Deal of POE. by swiftone

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