Re: Lift equivalent

2010-01-04 Thread Gene Tani
On Jan 3, 12:57 pm, Andrew Boekhoff wrote: > > > As for the OO vs functional . . . a web server is a function from a > > > request to a response.  How is that functional view any less natural > > > than an OO view? > > > I think someone steeped in the controller/action viewpoint (a la > > Rails)

Re: Lift equivalent

2010-01-03 Thread Andrew Boekhoff
> > As for the OO vs functional . . . a web server is a function from a > > request to a response. How is that functional view any less natural > > than an OO view? > > I think someone steeped in the controller/action viewpoint (a la > Rails) would disagree: they see requests as being parameteriz

Re: Lift equivalent

2010-01-03 Thread Richard Newman
> Enlive is about as clean as you could ask for in this respect, > though, even cleaner than Lift, so I don't think this is inherently a > language issue. Aye. XML literals aren't really a substitute for templates IMO. > As for the OO vs functional . . . a web server is a function from a > reques

Re: Lift equivalent

2010-01-03 Thread cody koeninger
On Jan 2, 11:50 am, Mike Meyer wrote: > There are definitely some good ideas there - and I agree with most of > the goals. But Lift, like most other page-centric web frameworks, > seems to break one of the fundamental rules of good API design: Simple > things should be simple. Having implemented

Re: Lift equivalent

2010-01-02 Thread Matt
The closest thing to Lift in Clojure right now is probably Conjure: http://github.com/macourtney/Conjure Tutorial on Conjure: http://wiki.github.com/macourtney/Conjure/hello-world-tutorial It's closer to Rails than Lift. I've looked at Lift and didn't see much advantage of it over a Rails like f

Re: Lift equivalent

2010-01-02 Thread Mike Meyer
On Sat, 2 Jan 2010 07:01:20 -0800 (PST) ngocdaothanh wrote: > Scala has Lift with many advanced features: > http://blog.lostlake.org/index.php?/archives/16-Web-Framework-Manifesto.html > http://blog.lostlake.org/index.php?/archives/25-Why-the-world-needs-another-web-framework.html There are defi