I recently re-read a lot of Paul Graham’s writings on lisp, and decided this time I was actually going to find out more about his concept of using closures to simulate web pages acting as subroutines (in Lisp in Web-Based Applications).
The two ‘definitive’ papers on the topic seem to be by Christian Queinnec: The [...]

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