Continuation based app servers

So programming.reddit.com has had quite a few links to Seaside
articles the last couple days. Seaside is the predominant web app
programming framework for Smalltalk and it's claim to fame is
continuations. I know that Common Lisp has a continuation based
Application Server, namely UnCommon Web. I've noticed that the
majority of web app talk with regards to CL is all based around
Hunchentoot/Araneida/AllegroServe/CL-HTTP. Is there a reason for
this? Is UnCommon Web a secret weapon? Or only used by Marco? ;)

-dustin

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Relevant Pages

  • Re: Scheme vs Lisp! [was Re: web application framework]
    ... Web servers cannot trust the client to send back anything at ... > all, let alone sane data. ... If your web app is sufficiently complex to have ... to this problem anyway, continuations or not. ...
    (comp.lang.lisp)
  • Re: Cross-lisp questions and my #lisp experience
    ... | miss by using Lisp instead of Scheme: continuations. ... it is extremely important when designing a web app to *think* ...
    (comp.lang.lisp)
  • Re: continuations in web apps
    ... continuations are a great way to manage the state of the usr ... I can _write_ my web app as a sequence of function calls, ... people writing far more advanced user interfaces over http. ... Ring the bells that still can ring. ...
    (comp.lang.lisp)