[gambit-list] Web Framework for Gambit

Samuel Montgomery-Blinn sam at caveman.org
Fri Nov 2 17:12:21 EDT 2007


re: "scheme on skis"

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/bloggers-block-3-dreaming-in-browser.html

> So as soon as "Scheme on Skis" or "JavaScript on Jets" or whatever comes
along, that Rails-like radical simplification of the huge ugly Browser
Swamp, the game will change almost overnight.

We can only hope Mr. Yegge didn't rush out to trademark it.

-s

On 11/2/07, Marc Feeley <feeley at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
>
> On 1-Nov-07, at 12:18 PM, Rouan van Dalen wrote:
>
> > I am looking to build a web framework on the same level as Rails,
> > only I want to be programming in Scheme.
>
> May I suggest the name "Scheme on skis"?
>
> > So I need 2 questions answered:
> >
> > 1) Is there any interest in something like this?
>
> For sure.  Many people have rolled their own incomplete solutions (aka
> hacks).  Perhaps you can distill something more complete by examining
> those solutions.  I can contribute my Scheme to Javascript compiler.
> There is also the Mobit interpreter which could prove useful here.
>
> > 2) Does MySQL5 bindings exist for Gambit? (if not I will gladly
> > write them)
>
> I seem to remember someone contributed MySQL bindings to the mailing
> list at some point.
>
> Marc
>
> _______________________________________________
> Gambit-list mailing list
> Gambit-list at iro.umontreal.ca
> https://webmail.iro.umontreal.ca/mailman/listinfo/gambit-list
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.iro.umontreal.ca/pipermail/gambit-list/attachments/20071102/cc8d423a/attachment.htm>


More information about the Gambit-list mailing list