See I find this to be less and less true as POE develops. For example last year I wanted to hook a POE based IRC bot up to a web service. I didn't want to figure out how to make PoCo::Client::HTTP work when I knew I could get things off the ground quickly with LWP. So I wrote it with LWP, in a straight OO fashion and then used POE::Component::Generic to handle making it non-blocking for POE.

Perhaps I have an odd case where my issue is just simple enough to work, but increasingly POE is becoming a decent solution for non-blocking code. The results are in the Net::AIML dist.

In my experience threading/forking doesn't change the issues most people are going to have, it just means you have to re-write a bunch of wheels dealing with concurrency and blocking (literally POE::Wheel's in the case of forking) instead of learning the POE API for doing the same tasks. But then I'm obviously biased toward POE which had a stable API when I started writing concurrent code, where as threading didn't.

In reply to Re^4: POE::Component::RSSAggregator breaks LWP::Simple::get by perigrin
in thread POE::Component::RSSAggregator breaks LWP::Simple::get by blahblahblah

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