Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-xml-cocoon-dev-archive@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 31499 invoked by uid 500); 31 Jan 2003 10:20:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cocoon-dev-help@xml.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Reply-To: cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 31477 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2003 10:20:10 -0000 Message-ID: <3E3A4E48.4030005@apache.org> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:22:00 +0100 From: Stefano Mazzocchi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org Subject: Re: [FLOW] Thank you... References: <3E399D14.5030604@apache.org> In-Reply-To: <3E399D14.5030604@apache.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > > Pier Fumagalli wrote: > >> Whoever invented the flow, whoever implemented it here, and had >> anything to >> do with it and brought it to Cocoon is a FUCKING GENIOUS. >> >> I shall erect an altar in my fireplace and burn incense to his holiness >> every single day, preaching for my soul, to be, at one day, of comparable >> intelligence with his... >> >> Pier >> >> PS Can you tell that I started using it? And that it did beat the crap >> out >> of me? Now I won't be able to design any web application without it! And >> that's the _beautiful_ part of it! :-) > > > AFAIK Saint Ovidiu Predescu :-D > > He had started it in a strange freaky language with continuations.... > > We didn't understand what he was doing, but he seemed so passionate > about it that we could not get together the courage to stop him. No way, I do remember having to keep pushing people aside to give Ovidiu room to breath when people were freaking out of Scheme's parenthesis and I was probably only one of the two who got the concept and believed in it. > Then > somehow he finally understood that Javascript could be the key to > opening the vault of knowledge to mortals, and finally we understood! He understood because I told him explicitly that scheme would never be used no matter how great the concept was. then he found rhyno+continuations and the rest is history. > Great respect for brother Ovidiu :-) And brother Christopher who added continuations to Rhyno. Kudos to both of you! -- Stefano Mazzocchi -------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: cocoon-dev-unsubscribe@xml.apache.org For additional commands, email: cocoon-dev-help@xml.apache.org