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The Discoveries of Continuations (1993) [pdf]
- yesenadam 8y agoWell, I'm not sure what that's about, besides possibly being mathematical. The title alone isn't enough to get me to download a pdf. (And I've downloaded 100s of mathematical PDFs)
- nikofeyn 8y agothat is some strange criteria and a weird guess when you could just open up the pdf and read the abstract. it is about continuations, a computer science concept of flow control or control state.
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- yesenadam 8y agoYeah, so strange and weird. I would've appreciated just your second sentence.
- MycroftJones 8y agoI've read the first few pages. Looks like an interesting paper and I'll read it further. Only flaw is that it doesn't cover Steve Russell being the first to discover/invent continuations. Steve Russell was the first implementor of LISP, and gave it its final syntax after McCarthy did his design work on it.
- pmcjones 8y agoAre you confusing continuations with closures? McCarthy credits Russell with inventing the FUNARG device to achieve lexical scoping.
- MycroftJones 8y agopage 6 of the PDF, a continuation is essentially the return address of a subroutine call. But then there are scoping rules that interact with that simplicity.