Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Richard has written a summary about web application development in 2005. It's in a Wiki and has developed into interesting comments on continuation based web frameworks and state. 4:29:01 PM

A new version of Gambit Scheme is available according to an email to the gambit-list from Marc Feeley. The source can be downloaded from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~feeley/gambc40b12.tar.gz. New in this release: The compiler does constant folding and optimistic inlining of predefined procedures. A problem with the configure script which prevented dynamic loading of object files on Mac OS X has been fixed. A "web-repl' example has been added. This is a java applet that provides an interface to Gambit's REPL enabling access to the REPL over a web browser. The C-interface has been improved to allow struct, union and class types to be passed between Scheme and C. Gambit is a nice looking Scheme system. It's one of the few that has support for serializable continuations which are handy for continuation based web frameworks. 12:27:24 PM