On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 04:35:14PM -0500, Zach Beane wrote: : On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 05:58:59PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: : > I've been reading up on ucw and lisp-on-lines, and I thought I'd ask you all : > a couple of questions: : > : > Have you found OO development with CLOS, such as offered by ucw and : > lisp-on-lines to be flexible and useful for web application development, or : > have you found functional approaches to be better? And given that : > hunchentoot seems to be the most robust and well-supported of the pure lisp : > servers (AFAIK) would it be useful to port some or all of ucw and/or lol : > functionality to work with hunchentoot? : : UCW and Lisp-on-Lines offer a system for developing web applications : that use continuations to hide the stateless nature of HTTP : requests. I haven't used either one, or the continuation technique, : but I tend to think of them as a layer atop a system like Hunchentoot : that provides access to explicit requests & responses. : : OO and CLOS are are orthogonal to continuations. I use OO and CLOS for : my Hunchentoot applications all the time, but I don't use : continuations.

Thanks for the helpful response. Just a quick follow-up: where have you found OO and CLOS most useful - representing entire pages, components on a page, or even items within components?

Jonathon McKitrick -- My other computer is your Windows box.