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z2005-12-02- Bray Web Continuations
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last edited by BillSeitz on Jun 8, 2009 1:31 pm

In considering 's [Beyond Java], says Bruce claims that the "" facility, commonly found in -s, snaps neatly onto the problem of making the Web look like a linear dialogue. Clearly, continuations are kind of hard to understand and not for casual or novice programmers. No problemo, says Bruce, frameworks like (layered over ) hide the weirdness and let you just carry on an orderly dialogue with a user via a Web browser. In my mind I was screaming "No! No! No!" because I've generally felt that the pain and complexity involved in and object- and object- mapping outweigh the benefits; that if your application is based on exchanging messages, then the message exchange has to be visible to the application programmer. I'm not alone in having this kind of reflex. Well, it seems that both and would tend to disagree, and the evidence is building up on their side. challenges the of this.

Do any of the -s use -s?


 




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