Continuations Based Web Framework - Seaside.

[Steve Holden]

Kendall Clark wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:03:10AM -0500, Steve Holden wrote:
> 
> 
>>I did actually do some sort-of-related work in this area, which I 
>>presented at PyCon DC 2004 - you can access the paper at
>>
>>   http://www.python.org/pycon/dc2004/papers/18/Setting_A_Context.pdf
>>
>>An audience member mentioned the Smalltalk and Scheme-based work on web 
>>continuation frameworks, and I was sorry my answer at the time seemed 
>>unduly dismissive. 
> 
> 
> That was me, actually. I remain surprised that there isn't a move
> afoot either to implement something like Seaside or Borges in Python
> or to adapt one of the existing web frameworks to be
> modal/continuation style.
> 
Ah, glad to make your acquaintance again - I lost your email address in 
a disk crash shortly after PyCon DC 2004.

[...]

>>There are some interesting similarities, and though 
>>my own implementation is decidedly clunky I like to think the paper 
>>explains some of the advantages of maintaining state and why the "back" 
>>button is an obnoxious anachronism :-)
> 
> 
> I'd still like to publish a piece on XML.com about modal web app
> style, preferably with a Python example, though Borges would be fine.
> 
Would an adaptation of the PyCon paper be any use in this context?

regards
  Steve
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