PG mentioned somewhere that when he was doing Viaweb, he was storing functions on the server side in a hash table, so that most urls work by invoking these func

PG mentioned somewhere that when he was doing Viaweb, he was storing functions on the server side in a hash table, so that most urls work by invoking these functions. This was his way of remembering state between url visits. It seems that functions expire from this hashtable after a while. I think that might have seemed like a good idea in 1998, but these days I think it's just pointless. http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/msg00681.html http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m... http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/bbnexcerpts.txt http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/bbnexcerpts.txt > One of the problems with using Web pages as a UI is the inherent > statelessness of Web sessions. We got around this by using lexical > closures to simulate subroutine-like behavior. If you understand > about continuations, one way to explain what we did would be to > say that we wrote our software in continuation-passing style.