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Experience report: ocsigen, a web programming framework

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Experience report: ocsigen, a web programming framework
The evolution of Web sites towards very dynamic applications makes it necessary to reconsider current Web programming technologies. We believe that Web development would benefit greatly e abstract paradigms and that a more semantical approach would result in huge gains in expressiveness. In particular, functional programming provides a really elegant solution to some important Web interaction problems, but few frameworks take advantage of it. The Ocsigen project is an attempt to provide global solutions to these needs. We present our experience in designing this general framework for Web programming, written in Objective Caml. It provides a full featured Web server and a framework for programming Web applications, with the aim of improving expressiveness and safety. This is done by taking advantage of functional programming and static typing as much as possible.
Vincent Balat, Jérôme Vouillon, Boris
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Updated 19 May 2010
Type Conference
Year 2009
Where ICFP
Authors Vincent Balat, Jérôme Vouillon, Boris Yakobowski
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