Re: [Chicken-users] Async IO (was Re: libcurl?)

[Will M. Farr]

> +1. Scheme seems inherently well-suited to this kind of model, esp.
> given continuations and the plentiful supply of syntatic sugar.
> (Reading Twisted code can be painful at times; I suspect that a Scheme
> equivalent would bear much more readable and manageable code.)
>
> This bears the question: is there anything comparable to the Twisted
> framework (monolithic process with async IO, continuation-like
> application design) in the Scheme world? Clearly the foundation is
> there, I just wonder if anyone has "packaged the concept" as the
> Twisted developers have.

I don't know what Twisted is, but you might have a look at Termite  
(mentioned in this blog  
http://patricklogan.blogspot.com/2005/07/termite-lisp-for-distributed- 
computing.html ); it sounds like what you're talking about done in  
Gambit-C.

Will