He will want multiple timers checking different things simulanaeously. Without that ability, he eventually will have deeply nested while loops, that clog up and can't be dynamic enough to change every 10 milliseconds. Deeply nested loops are like human insanity.... people claim they are perfectly sane in their unresponsive deeply nested state, whereas the worlds around them are constantly checking and updating their state, pitying the poor deeply nested while loop.... spinning there, stuck, because their code god did not make them with an eventloop, so that they could understand time. bwahaha
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In reply to Re^7: Should I use threads? Perl/DHCP/Radius by zentara
in thread Should I use threads? Perl/DHCP/Radius by Anonymous Monk

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