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Ah coroutines, essentially glorified goto. My 10keV take is that dijsktra's paper while probably right about goto back then has cursed us and we are still curse

Ah coroutines, essentially glorified goto. My 10keV take is that dijsktra's paper while probably right about goto back then has cursed us and we are still cursed till this day. Some logical structures map well to just using goto in a series of steps, but because of this allergy to goto, we're stuck where basically jumping into a random place in a function is "novel."

kachnuv_ocasek 3y ago
Coroutines/continuations are not “basically jumping into a random place in a function”. It's pausing the execution of a function in a well-defined place with well-defined, understandable semantics for resuming the execution.