This is in response to this article, Asynchronous HTTP Requests in Perl Using AnyEvent - linked to from Perl Weekly. Particularly, this quote:
BTW, if you’re a Perl programmer and you’ve been jealous of all the cool kids and node.js, AnyEvent is how you do node.js-style programming in Perl.

UPDATE: this is a better example.
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