Re: [Wheat-developer] AJAX

[Kragen S. <ksi...@co...>]

On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 13:59 -0400, Jim Kingdon wrote:
> [quoting someone else]
> > Okay, okay, this is getting rather ahead of ourselves.....  But it is
> > a curious idea, no?
> 
> Isn't it more interesting to give wheat something truly novel now,
> rather than fleshing out details first?  The details won't do any good
> unless wheat has some compelling advantage.

Being able to build Ajax apps without the Solomonic split between the
parts written in JavaScript and the parts written in some other language
--- as described in the opening paragraphs of
<http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2005-April/000769.html>
--- would be a truly novel compelling advantage.  Philip Wadler (et
multa alia) is also trying to achieve this in Links ---
<http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/view/634>