Event-driven programming in Perl

For some tasks, the standard procedural programming method fails to provide the flexibility you need. Notably, writing a network daemon or asynchronous task manager are made far easier using an event driven programming framework. POE is the most well known framework for this in Perl. While fairly slim and stable, POE is a difficult beast to get started on, as understanding the flow of your code becomes a far more complex problem.

In this presentation I shall demonstrate how to quickly create an IRC server with an HTTP frontend using easy to obtain POE components. If possible, I will also cover Python's Twisted and Ruby's EventMachine.