Re: Age of Continuations?

[Dan Sugalski <address@hidden>]

At 3:53 PM -0500 3/24/03, Neel Krishnaswami wrote:
>Dan Sugalski writes:
>>
>>  Here's a quick question--I figure this is probably the best place to
>>  ask, as the web's been somewhat unhelpful.  How old are
>>  continuations as a Lisp language feature? I've got references that
>>  indicate they're going on 30 years old or more, but nothing
>>  definitive, and I admit my Lisp library's somewhat lacking.
>
>You will definitely want to read John C. Reynold's "The Discoveries of
>Continuations", which is a historical account of how continuations
>were gradually invented.
>
><http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/reynolds93discoveries.html>
>
>This paper is mostly about the theoretical end, so someone else will
>have to take up how call/cc ended up in Scheme.

Don't much care about how scheme fits into the picture, only because 
it's so young, relatively speaking.

Thanks for the link--looks like the most solid original date for 
continuations is 9/64, and for them as concepts in use to the 
1969-1972 timeframe, which is good enough for my purposes.
-- 
                                         Dan

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