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What is POE?
From the offical POE homepage at http://poe.perl.org,

  • "POE is a framework for event driven state machines."
  • it was written by Rocco Caputo.
  • originally written to manage a MUD
  • provides a set of tools for managing multiple state machines.
  • POE is 3 years old - nice and stable
  • effectively provides cooperative multitasking in perl
  • won "best new module" award at TPC 3.0
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