> On Jan 12, 2015, at 10:41 AM, Zeev Atlas <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am new to JavaScript and node.js, but I have a lot of experience in other > languages (Perl for example.) Could somebody please explain or point me to > documentation about what is the difference between child/callback and fork > that is used in Perl. Is there any conceptual difference, any improvement or > is it basically one and the same > >
Perl's fork starts a whole new unix process; communication with the parent is only via a status code. Callbacks are a much more internal structure; they're like a sub reference in perl, passed to a sub that starts IO to be called when the IO has finished. Aria -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/DB6E960B-2BC5-4334-A702-92FF201FE86A%40nbtsc.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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