One of the small problems with the Perl6 project is that they’re taking alot of ideas from Computer Science that I never got to learn. Continuations are something that’s come up alot with Perl 6 (Perl 6 has them, Perl 5 does not) and I had no clue what they were. Finally someone decided to explain what the hell they are … Continuations and VMs (Except for the bits about VMs) next he’ll explain why .NET doesn’t have them. (Though I think I can understand why because .NET doesn’t have closures (yet) either)
-Chris
Written on April 1st , 2003 by Chris Prather