On Thursday, Jan 30, 2003, at 13:45 US/Pacific, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
First of all, I have not invented anything, I've just taken advantage of what other people have done. All my kudos go to them!Pier Fumagalli wrote:Whoever invented the flow, whoever implemented it here, and had anything to
do with it and brought it to Cocoon is a FUCKING GENIOUS.
I shall erect an altar in my fireplace and burn incense to his holiness
every single day, preaching for my soul, to be, at one day, of comparable
intelligence with his...
Pier
PS Can you tell that I started using it? And that it did beat the crap out
of me? Now I won't be able to design any web application without it! And
that's the _beautiful_ part of it! :-)
AFAIK Saint Ovidiu Predescu :-D
Now this is really a good analogy, but I'm still very far away from the real saint (and I have neither chance nor desire to reach there ;)
http://www.stallman.org/saint.html
Stefano came up some time ago with a good list of appellatives. We need to come up with a song as good as this one :)
http://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.au
He had started it in a strange freaky language with continuations....The original idea of using continuations was told to me by a friend of mine, Florin Mihaila, who read about it in a paper by Christian Queinnec (http://youpou.lip6.fr/queinnec/WWW/Queinnec.html).
We didn't understand what he was doing, but he seemed so passionate about it that we could not get together the courage to stop him. Then somehow he finally understood that Javascript could be the key to opening the vault of knowledge to mortals, and finally we understood!
Great respect for brother Ovidiu :-)
Christopher Oliver was very instrumental in implementing continuations in Rhino. Without his excellent work, patience and attention to detail, the flow would most likely be written in pure Scheme, e.g. nobody would have used it :() Few can understand the importance of the changes he has done in Rhino and their impact on the current design of the Cocoon control flow engine. Many thanks, Chris!
Many other people contributed to the flow engine that we have now. Michael Melhem contributed an excellent patch to expire old continuations. Christian Haul added support for actions in the flow. Marcus Crafter, Michael and Reinhard Pötz were very early adopters of the idea and contributed with lots of ideas and bug fixes. Stefano and other developers provided a lot of moral support during the days of this project. Incredibly, it started so long ago, in December 2001!
So many thanks to all these Brothers :) And lastly not the least, the people on this mailing list were very supportive in listening to such crazy and unorthodox methods of writing Web applications.
Best regards,
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Ovidiu Predescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.google.com/search?btnI=&q=ovidiu (I'm feeling lucky)
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