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November 02, 2010
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An Alternative To LWP And LWP::Parallel
By Michael Marr
The benefit of using a Perl library is that you can instantly tap the knowledge and experience of one or more programmers who have already sought out and accomplished what you wish to harness from a given library. However, when utilizing an unmaintained library, you often run into new problems that have arisen since the library was maintained.

Although giving us a head start on the task at hand, often times digging through code that is not our own takes longer than generating the same code from the scratch (especially when undocumented or poorly written). Therefore, we should aim to avoid using unmaintained or out-dated libraries.

The World-Wide Web library for Perl, or LWP, is a vital tool in a Perl programmer's arsenal. We can use it to access website APIs like Twitter, download webpages, connect to FTP servers, and a myriad of other web related functions. The module, LWP::Parallel, is a way to do multiple of these requests at once...

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