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   1 Event-driven programming in Perl
   2 Charles McGarvey | Mon, 6/18 at 2:00 pm | 50 minutes | Ballroom B
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   4 Event-driven programming is a paradigm where programmers create subroutines
   5 that get called when events occur. Events can be just about anything: timers
   6 expiring, new data becoming available to read from a socket, even humans
   7 clicking on things in an interactive program.
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   9 Event-driven programming definitely isn't anything new, but there have been
  10 some interesting developments over the past ten years. Event-driven frameworks
  11 and applications have risen in popularity and are replacing systems built
  12 using outdated techniques. New methods and language features have been created
  13 to make event-driven programming nicer.
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  15 In this talk we’ll go over:
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  17  - the language features in Perl that make event-driven programming happen,
  18  - some CPAN modules that offer the extra functionality you need.
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  20 This talk is somewhat geared toward beginners (either to Perl or to
  21 event-driven programming), but it may also be interesting to anyone wondering
  22 about the current state of event-driven programming in Perl.