Vancouver Lisp Users Group meeting for September - Client-side continuations for web programming
Monday, September 11, 2006
Last month, Marc Battyani
spoke about his framework for web application development. His framework
generates Javascript to send updates to the server after any field on
an HTML page is changed by a user and to automatically refresh fields
on copies of the same data. This month's meeting will also be discussing
Javascript generation but with a different twist: James Wright will be discussing
the use of a lisp-based program transformer to provide continuations
in Javascript for asynchronous operations in the browser.
Here's the "official" meeting notice:
Topic: Client-side continuations for web programming
Presenter: James Wright
Date: Thursday, September 21, 2006
Time: 7pm - 10pm (or whenever)
Venue:
Think!, 4512 West 10th Ave., Vancouver (see
map)
Summary: Jwacs (Javascript With Advanced Continuation Support) is a program
transformer written in Lisp that converts an extended Javascript
syntax to regular Javascript. The extended syntax provides the ability
to capture and resume first-class continuations. James Wright will
present jwacs and some of its uses for web programming. He'll also
give an overview of how jwacs works and what advantages come from
implementing it in Lisp.
See you there!
