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Robert Maas, http://tinyurl.com/uh3t  
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 More options Sep 3 2010, 11:18 pm
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From: seeWebInst...@rem.intarweb.org (Robert Maas, http://tinyurl.com/uh3t)
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:18:29 -0700
Local: Fri, Sep 3 2010 11:18 pm
Subject: Re: ITA, move over!
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> From: Andy Chambers <achambers.h...@gmail.com>
> But if you've already got a working application, and want to
> quickly port it to the web, that approach means re-writing your app
> in the subset of lisp that parenscript can compile down to
> javascript.

But actually just re-organizing the main command loop to be a
sequence of client-server interactions rather than a stdio loop, or
likewise converting your event-driven GUI to be a sequence of
client-server interactions and all your dialogs to be HTML instead
of GUI widgets, is a considerable amount of work too.

But I agree that at least your "business logic" doesn't need to be
translated, so I mostly agree with your main point.

In 1995-1999 I had a Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp application
(teaching reading and spelling) which made heavy use of GUI events.
I did successfully refactor all the events to be HTML/CGI
transactions instead, except the sound generation to signal correct
or wrong answers to questions, yielding a working Web application.
Eventually I might translate it to PHP/MySQL so that I can run it
on free hosting services, as part of http://TinyURL.Com/NewEco.


 
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