Re: The fundamental concept of continuations

2007-10-09 Thread gnuist006
On Oct 9, 5:50 am, Matthias Blume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:15:49 +, gnuist006 wrote: > > >> Again I am depressed to encounter a fundamentally new concept that I > >> was all

Re: The fundamental concept of continuations

2007-10-09 Thread gnuist006
Special thanks to many of you for your very decent replies. On Oct 9, 11:18 am, George Neuner wrote: > On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:15:49 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Again I am depressed to encounter a fundamentally new concept that I > >was all along unheard of. Its not even in paul graham's bo

Re: The fundamental concept of continuations

2007-10-09 Thread gnuist006
On Oct 8, 11:09 pm, "." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:15:49 +, gnuist006 wrote: > > > Can anyone explain: > > > (1) its origin > > One of the lambda papers, I think. I don't remember which. Hey no-name "dot" you

Re: The fundamental concept of continuations

2007-10-08 Thread gnuist006
On Oct 8, 11:09 pm, "." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:15:49 +, gnuist006 wrote: > > Again I am depressed to encounter a fundamentally new concept that I > > was all along unheard of. Its not even in paul graham's book where i > >

Re: The fundamental concept of continuations

2007-10-08 Thread gnuist006
On Oct 8, 11:07 pm, Bakul Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Again I am depressed to encounter a fundamentally new concept that I > > was all along unheard of. > > The concept is 37 years old. Wadsworth in his "Continuation > Revisited" paper says he & Strachey were

Re: The fundamental concept of continuations

2007-10-08 Thread gnuist006
On Oct 8, 10:59 pm, Barb Knox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Lambda calculus. Instead of function A returning to its caller, the > caller provides an additional argument (the "continuation") which is a > function B to be called by A with A's result(s). In pure "continuation > style" coding, noth

The fundamental concept of continuations

2007-10-08 Thread gnuist006
Again I am depressed to encounter a fundamentally new concept that I was all along unheard of. Its not even in paul graham's book where i learnt part of Lisp. Its in Marc Feeley's video. Can anyone explain: (1) its origin (2) its syntax and semantics in emacs lisp, common lisp, scheme (3) Is it p

Re: why did MIT drop scheme for python in intro to computing?

2007-10-08 Thread gnuist006
On Oct 8, 9:04 pm, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-10-09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does scheme have a gui library? > > Yes. It had a far, far better Tk binding than Python. > > http://kaolin.unice.fr/STk/ > > I've used both for real-world applications,

Re: why did MIT drop scheme for python in intro to computing?

2007-10-08 Thread gnuist006
On Oct 8, 1:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Harvey) wrote: > "Kjetil S. Matheussen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >I don't think your speculations makes very much sence. > > Amen. > > And, in any case, there's no need to speculate. MIT has published, on their > web site, pages and pages of ratio