Continuations and Web Servers

  • Authors:
  • Christian Queinnec

  • Affiliations:
  • Université Paris 6, Pierre et Marie Curie, LIP6, Cedex 05, France 75252

  • Venue:
  • Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Programming web applications in direct style with the help of continuations is a much simpler, safer, modular and better-performing technology than the current dominating "page-centric" technology combining CGI scripts, active pages or servlets. This paper discusses the use of continuations in the context of web applications, the problems they solve as well as some new problems they introduce.