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with huge learning curves, that produce complicated, hard to maintain code.

Can't agree with this statement, I had to work with some projects with POE and AnyEvent and it wasn't especially hard to learn and maintain. On the other hand I will not call threads simple, as most people (I'm judging by code I had to work with) either had no idea that they need to lock shared variable before accessing it at all, or are not able to implement it properly.

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Re^3: threads and their alternatives
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 02, 2011 at 06:50 UTC

    Would you be up for the challenge of producing a demo solution for the OPs described problem using one of the event-based frameworks?

    If so, I'll do a threaded version and we could compare them for complexity.

    If you're up for it, we could start with a simple GUI in Tk or GTK that presents data as a list -- zentara has posted many examples we could use as a starting point -- and then we add a few buttons that are used to control which records are SELECTed from a simple SQLite database using an SQL query via DBI.

    Contrasting two working solutions would be far more useful that contrasting our opinions I think.

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      Would you be up for the challenge

      No way, I have better ways to spend Sunday. BTW, in this particular case I would probably use separate process for GUI (or even thread, I'm not a bigot), I don't see the reason you're trying to limit me with event-based solution.

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        No way.

        Thought not. Many will advocate them, but none will offer code. Why do you think that is?

        I don't see the reason you're trying to limit me with event-based solution.

        Because you came out in strong support of them.

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        "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
        In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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