<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Yea, we certainly have continuations. There’s an application web server based on them called Seaside. <div class=""><a href="http://www.seaside.st" class="">http://www.seaside.st</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Come out to the event, I’ll show it to you. And how it’s influenced the project I’m working on. </div><div class="">If you cannot make it, there’s information here on how Seaside works. </div><div class=""><a href="http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/seaside/tutorial" class="">http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/seaside/tutorial</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Seaside is great to learn about continuations. As for making it a home for your next web project…</div><div class="">what would open source be without divided opinions and plans for alternatives? </div><div class="">Definitely worth looking at, though. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Chris </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""> <div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 21, 2017, at 7:09 PM, Ian Zimmerman <<a href="mailto:itz@primate.net" class="">itz@primate.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 2017-03-21 12:23, Chris Cunnington wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">The other reason is that Python and Javascript are going to get pretty<br class="">weird if you want to use continuations and such. I subscribe that if<br class="">you want to reach the outer limits of exploring computer science<br class="">you’ll need a language like Smalltalk or Lisp.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Does Smalltalk have built in continuations? If yes that definitely<br class="">qualifies as an answer to my question. Although Python does have<br class="">Twisted, which is not built in but comes as close to it as is possible<br class="">on the library level. With Javascript being even more FP flavored<br class="">(according to its proponents anyway), I guess that a similar<br class="">framework must exist in that realm too.<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Please *no* private Cc: on mailing lists and newsgroups<br class="">Personal signed mail: please _encrypt_ and sign<br class="">Don't clear-text sign: <a href="http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html" class="">http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html</a><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">buug mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:buug@buug.org" class="">buug@buug.org</a><br class="">http://buug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/buug<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>