The sample code I've seen is starting child process and giving it a 
reference to a callback function, so I perceived it as something like a 
'fork' plus 'and once you finish, please call back' which is an ingenious 
idea but conceptually it is a fork, hence my question.
Is there any other use for callback mechanism?
Thanks
ZA 

On Monday, January 12, 2015 at 12:15:07 PM UTC-5, // ravi wrote:

> On Jan 12, 2015, at 10:41 AM, Zeev Atlas <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> 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? 
> > 
>
> “child” and “callback” are different things. Can you clarify your question 
> a bit? 
>
>         —ravi 
>
>
>
>

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