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Anyhow, I’d always vaguely understood continuations and knew that smart people thought they were great, but I looked at the code from his essay Continuations on the Web and thought “I can’t believe that does what he says”, but it turns out that OS X comes with Ruby and yes, it does what he says. But I had to spend a long time looking at it to see why. Will this kind of idiom ever enter the mainstream? I’m not sure, but internalizing it will make you a little smarter.

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Adam Vandenberg (http://adamv.com) wrote:

What the... hey! I <i>do</i> have Ruby on here.

∴ Adam Vandenberg | 24-Mar-2005 4:14pm est | http://adamv.com | #7288

You should read his explaination of Monadic I/O too. It rocks out.

∴ Keith Gaughan | 24-Mar-2005 6:14pm est | http://talideon.com/ | #7289

This is one of the reasons why I have been impressed with Mac OS X recently. It includes cool emerging and open technologies.

Ooh, Monadic I/O, rock. I've been wanting to get a chance to grok that for a while (as I've mentioned, side-effectful things like I/O in a purely functional language make no sense to me).

∴ Keith | 24-Mar-2005 10:28pm est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #7296

Well the link's in my linklog (albeit I'm after realising I mistyped the word 'monadic' as 'modadic'), and it really does make sense.

∴ Keith Gaughan | 25-Mar-2005 3:01am est | http://talideon.com/ | #7297

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