> 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

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