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3: Re: Continuations for web programming? (response to 1)

Posted by Andrew Piskorski on 02/28/05 08:46 PM

Some links relevant to this old topic:

A Wiki version of Vadim's old post.
Lambda the Ultimate on Using continuations for web programming.
Dave Roberts on continuations and REST.
Paul Graham discussing continuation-passing style in Lisp for Web-Based Applications.
Chris Double gives lots of links on continuation based web servers and the like.
Norman Ramsey and Simon Peyton Jones explain cheap continuations for C-- (a compiler back-end language), as opposed to (expensive) first class continuations as in Scheme R5RS.

11: Continuations, coroutines, threads, etc. (response to 3)

Posted by Andrew Piskorski on 04/06/05 01:20 PM

Various notes:

Coroutines and continuations are related concepts. Roberto Ierusalimschy's papers include his 1994 "Revisiting Coroutines", with a very nice overview of coroutine stuff. It seems to touch on every flavor of coroutine other than Simon Peyton Jones's "cheap continuations". (He's also the creator of Lua.)

Adam Dunkels, creator of Protothreads, gives a bunch of useful links on threads, continuations, coroutines.

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