Re: Specific questions from Lisp newbie (Please don't taunt the fresh blood)

From: Alan Shutko (ats_at_acm.org)
Date: 02/04/05 

Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 20:12:06 -0600

"Marc Battyani" <Marc.Battyani@fractalconcept.com> writes:

> In a complex application with 100's of CLOS classes there is no such
> ordering except locally for "are you sure ?" questions which are so
> simple that they don't need continuations either.

It depends on the application. In the call center application I
develop at work (about 100KLOC of java, with about 200 separate pages)
there's a fairly large amount of ordered operations which this would
help with. If we were to refactor it to actually be task-oriented (to
speed call handling) the number of ordered operations would go up a
lot.

Naturally, the benefit a project would get from continuations is
dependent on the application, but there are complex applications out
there which would benefit. Alas, we now have tons of code so we won't
be switching to UCW any time soon. 

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