Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to")

[Stéphane Payrard]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 03:50:53PM -0400, James Blackwell wrote:
> Tom Lord wrote:
> >                                                                   and
> > continuations in a simple (rather than heavily optimized) interpreter
> > was fairly absurd at the time;
> 
> That's it, I'll play the dope. What are continuations?
> 

You may be interested to read the blog of Dan Sugalski who is the
architect of Parrot, the VM that will run Perl6.

He talks about continuations among other things:
   http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/archives/000156.html
there are other entries on that subject in his blog.

Because contuations have been used for ages in Lisp, lambda the
ultimate is a good resource:
  http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/

-- 
 stef