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As I write this, the size of the program is significantly less than
1,000 lines (not including this documentation), while still managing
to implement a reasonably complex network daemon. In all, it took
about an evening's work to code and eliminate most of the major
bugs. The reason for both the small size and quick development time
can be attributed to the combination of Perl and POE. Despite this
being my first time writing any program using POE, the speed of
development was not down to amazing programming skill on my
part. Rather, it boiled down to just one factor: almost all of the POE
code I have here was based, in one way or another, on example code
hosted on the L<POE Cookbook site|http://poe.perl.org/?POE_Cookbook>.

Since I had already read up sufficiently on POE (and the examples in
the cookbook) and knew in general how I wanted my daemon to work,
selecting the relevant recipes and reworking them was a pretty
straightforward process. Based on this experience, I would definitely
recommend other Perl programmers to consider POE for programs of this
sort (network daemons) as well as for any other task where the an
event-based approach is suitable.