<div>On 4/30/07, Matthias Felleisen <<a href="mailto:matthias@ccs.neu.edu">matthias@ccs.neu.edu</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> As far as we are concerned, the exploration of continuation in the context of interactive web programming was our primary motivation to do research in this area. We have done other things for the web server, but I wouldn't consider them 'research.' CPS and ANF are general topics, only coincidentally related to the web server.</blockquote><div> I see - if continuation is *the* way - then perhaps "serializable" continuation (so another web server instance anywhere on the network can load it "cheaply" and resume computation) would be the path toward scalability ;) </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> > (just my 2 cents) From a practitioner perspective, AJAX does > provide some simplifications in web development, but also > complicates the structure of the code especially in situations > where one needs to handle both ajax and non-ajax capable browsers > (while few desktop client suffer from this issue today - more > mobile clients are on the rise).  Code duplication is huge in such > cases and I am still searching for a good abstraction... ;) > Good topics for research. Keep pushing -- Matthias </blockquote></div> I certainly will - these problems are dear to my heart too. Thanks Matthias, yinso -- <a href="http://www.yinsochen.com">http://www.yinsochen.com</a> ...continuous learning...