> On Nov 12, 2018, at 2:22 PM, George Neuner <gneun...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> PS: Why do web-servers need CPS? > > In general they don't.
They need continuations, because BACK buttons, cloning of TABs and similar actions force a control flow on interactive web programs that is easily explained and programmed via first-class continuations (which can be modeled, among other things, with CPS). Since most PLs do not support first-class continuations, programmers of interactive web-server plugins to manually encode this flow of control, which is done via partial CPS conversion. You can now think about how well most programmers are prepared for this via their undergraduate training and you get the idea why interactive servlets were often broken. Web client frameworks have eliminated some of this problem (but suffer from their own, which aren’t unrelated to continuations either). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
