Tag: Continuations

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• Computer science

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

1. Sam Ruby: Continuations for Curmudgeons.

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Thursday, March 24, 2005

1. ongoing · Mind Expansion by Mikael:

   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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