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. Between this pressure (which isn't new, since as Steve points out, I was talking about this in Python community last year, and I wasn't nearly the first) and the growing popularity of Ruby on Rails, there's some small hint that Ruby is gaining on Python re: non-Java web app mind share. I think that's a v. important niche for Python and would like to see us remain strong there (though I've not *done* much about this, alas). > 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. Best, Kendall Clark XML.com Managing Editor -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list