Re: Show me the missing Big Deal of POE.

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:

Foldoc's definition of "abstract machine".
Foldoc's definition of "finite state machine".
Foldoc's definition of "virtual machine".
An introduction to abstract state machines.
An excellent list of abstract machine sites.
Concurrent State Machine Software Architecture Styles
UML for Real-Time Systems Design

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

-- Rocco Caputo / troc@netrus.net

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RE (tilly) 2: Show me the missing Big Deal of POE. by tilly (Archbishop) on Oct 14, 2000 at 00:41 UTC
Just out of curiosity, how would you say POE compares to Libero? That strikes me as a similar ideal, though not Perl specific. (I have not tried it, but I have used the Xitami webserver that they wrote with it and it works...) Thanks, Ben	[reply]