Comments on: Seaside-Style Programming in ErlyWeb

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:32:54 +0000

Beware of the patents! Continuation-based servers are patented by PG and the patent is owned by Y! (soon, MS)

From Wikipedia, on US patent law:
Thus, merely thinking about an invention, or drawing a diagram, is not an infringement. Research for “purely philosophical” inquiry is not an infringement, but research directed to commercial purposes is - unless the research is directed toward obtaining approval of the Food and Drug Administration for introduction of a generic version of a patented drug.

So open source platforms, or little experiments like this are fine.

By: Moot

Moot — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:24:52 +0000

Beware of the patents! Continuation-based servers are patented by PG and the patent is owned by Y! (soon, MS)

By: Magnus Falk

Magnus Falk — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:48:28 +0000

Slava Akhmechet has yet another Web framwork where continuations is one of the main features (this one made in Common Lisp) and he writes some really good articles on the subject. He also seems to be a bit of an Erlang fan to boot!

http://www.defmacro.org/

By: Akshay Surve

Akshay Surve — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:04:53 +0000

I have been following your blog for a month now and also silently following the ErlyWeb Google group.

I remember Paul initiating the Arc Challenge and throwing it open. I thought it would be great to see Erlang/ErlyWeb way of doing it and there you were giving it a shot. And now following it up with this code sample which is just awesome. I really appreciate your your work.

Played around a little with Erlang and raring to explore ErlyWeb. :)