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The Discoveries of Continuation [pdf]

• WalterGR 4y ago
  (1993)
• tonyg 4y ago
  ... of "continuations", not "continuation": Reynolds, John C. “The Discoveries of Continuations.” LISP and Symbolic Computation 6, no. 3–4 (1993): 233–47. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01019459 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01019459. -- Reynolds 1993 has the concept of continuations as firmly part of the discourse by 1973, having been rediscovered in a few different contexts in 1970-71 after van Wijngaarden’s 1964 initial description of the idea. -- https://eighty-twenty.org/2016/10/18/actors-hopl https://eighty-twenty.org/2016/10/18/actors-hopl
• agumonkey 4y ago
  If I'm not misguided, Landin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Landin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Landin) should be included in continuations history, his reification of jump was influential.
  • Jtsummers 4y ago
    He's included in the discussion, is personally acknowledged, and four of the citations are to his works.
    • agumonkey 4y ago
      I clicked on the wrong link, hence my redundant reply u_u;
• dreamcompiler 4y ago
  Continuations are a strange abstraction in that they seem very high-level, but at the same time they are glaringly obvious at the assembly language level if you know how to look for them.