Re: A Day At The Beach

Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:

> I just can't stop writing articles - and this one is about Smalltalk no 
> less...
> 
> We recently discovered Seaside, which is a Web Application Framework for 
> Squeak Smalltalk, and it simply blew us away. That's why I wrote a short 
> article about it:
> 
> 'A Day At The Beach' describes our first exploration of the Seaside Web 
> Application Framework for Squeak Smalltalk that offers a dramatic 
> improvement in abstraction and productivity.
> 
> http://homepage.mac.com/svc/ADayAtTheBeach/index.html
> 
> There is a link with Lisp though: the underlying concept that makes 
> Seaside so special - using continuations to hide the request-response 
> cycle of HTTP and present it as a natural linear flow
>  - is actually a (re)implementation of concepts that originated in the 
> Scheme community...

Very nice article about Seaside! There were lot's of discussions
at ILC03 about continuations and their use in web applications.
The Squeak approach is really quite elegant. I would kill for a
similar framework in Common Lisp.

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