POE can wrap itself around a GTK loop and manage a fistful of
transient, self-contained, self-creating objects. Or it can run a Webserver
as a foreground interface to a bunch of background Perl objects
doing God knows what. Even NTK’s official Perl lamers wrote
an HTTP SOAP server which simultaneously controlled an IRC bot
by using POE to splice a bunch of CPAN modules together—in an
evening. POE is ZOPE without the “Zzzz” of Python. It’s small
enough to understand, and big enough to extend. It is worth a weekend
of your copious free time.
— http://www.ntk.net/2001/05/25/#TRACKINGhttp://poe.perl.org/poedown/poe-whitepaper-a4.pdf
-- MartinCleaver - 20 Dec 2004
A Beginner's Introduction to POE
-- WillNorris - 20 Dec 2004