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Sounds like a similar idea to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curl_(programming_language) -- can you compare them?

Yes here : http://epsilonwiki.free.fr/lambdaway/?view=curl

They take a similar amount of code to do stuff but Curl is easier to read.

It's a respectable point of view. Mine is that lambdatalk follows closely the HTML/CSS/Lisp syntaxes and allows to share the creation of rich and interactive documents between authors, web designers and coders.

And also, don't forget that to use Curl products or execute Curl applications over the internet, it’s necessary to acquire and agree to a Curl license. The lambdaway project is free and easy to install, http://epsilonwiki.free.fr/lambdaway/?view=download.

"And also, don't forget that to use Curl products or execute Curl applications over the internet, it’s necessary to acquire and agree to a Curl license."

I haven't forgotten. I was excited to see a full-stack solution get invented that about anyone could use. Then they wanted to lock it up commercially. That killed all hope of it spreading. (sighs)

These days I'm more into pushing Opa given it brings ML-style robustness to the full-stack concept. Was good to see your project, though, as I'm all for experimentation in this space. :)

http://opalang.org/

Thanks for the link to Opa. Looks very interesting. About the readability of the code, what do you think of lambdatalk for kids : http://epsilonwiki.free.fr/lambdaway/?view=teaching

Seems interesting. I'll look at it again later.

How does Opa compare to Urweb? Both seem to have an ML-style influence http://www.impredicative.com/ur/

It's nice to see an abstraction over Javascript and ajax. I'm working on an asp.net MVC site at the moment and can't stand the untidyness of dealing with the jumping between abstractions all the time.

As an aside, Elm looks a nice way to write web client code. I hope Elm will one day compile to a fast language for the server (e.g. C, OCaml or WebAssembly). There's no reason Elm shouldn't be as fast as OCaml and I think for server-based work it should be within 2x C speed.

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