From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2004-02-04T06:23:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Borges/Iowa resource usage

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Avi Bryant wrote:

# 
# It's always interesting to see what happens to one's work.  I wasn't
# involved at all in the development of Borges (beyond picking the name
# ;) - I wasn't fully aware of the work Eric was doing until I saw his
# RubyConf slides.  Eric told me after he finished the port that there
# were cases where he didn't really understand what was going on, but
# just copied verbatim what I had done in Smalltalk.  It wouldn't
# surprise me if rewriting Borges from first principles in idiomatic
# Ruby made some of these problems go away (though of course, my ideas
# about what these "first principles" might be are always evolving...). 
#  If this style of framework is interesting to people (and it seems to
# be), I'd be willing to help some folks start fresh and "do it right".
# 

If I didn't already have about 3x the projects I can handle, I would be 
jumping on this one (I've been writing some Seaside applications in 
Smalltalk for fun lately).  

That being said, how much code do you think it would take to implement the 
simplest case of a continuations-based web app ala Seaside, but without a 
generalized framework?  Is there some very minimal and limited case that 
you could create that would serve as the magic beans from which the rest 
of the framework might grow?

Chad