[plt-scheme] web programming, continuation, CPS transform, etc.

From: Grant Rettke (grettke at acm.org)
Date: Mon Apr 30 22:19:34 EDT 2007

> > 4) Is PLT web server moving toward the paper's findings?  If not,
> > why not?
>
> At the same time, AJAX has relieved the need for many uses of
> continuations. So perhaps this research has explored as much as
> possible and will need to be resumed when the dust has settled on the
> (limittations of) AJAX.

My take is that continuations are more about capturing state and
making the program easier to understand. AJAX achieves neither of
these goals, in fact, quite the opposite!


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