There are a whole bunch of these — libevent, libev, glib's main loop, Qt's main loop, Apache's modular event loop, … …which is why there is libverto, a 2nd ord

There are a whole bunch of these — libevent, libev, glib's main loop, Qt's main loop, Apache's modular event loop, … …which is why there is libverto, a 2nd order abstraction. It'd be funny if it weren't also sad.