At some point everyone gets the desire to be able to do multiple things at once or be in multiple places at the same time as a way of getting more done. And although we try to multitask, the research keeps piling up to suggest that humans aren’t so good at intentional multitasking. But computers, they do a much better job at this, that is, if we humans can express clearly just how we want them to work on multiple things at once. I thought it might be fun to explore the various ways we can use Perl to write code that performs multiple tasks at once. This can be a fairly wide-ranging topic, so we’re going to take it on over multiple columns to give us plenty of space to peruse the subject. Note: for those of you with photographic memories, I touched on a similar subject in this column back in 2007. There will be some overlap (and I might even quote myself), but I’ll be bringing the topic up to date by bringing in modules that weren’t around in the good ole days.
