tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6980563123714226966.post2965879225823125953..comments2009-05-28T06:45:26.072-07:00Comments on The Meta Analogy: Tech Cult Number FiveRaj Wall, Metanalogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03707038940760112268noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6980563123714226966.post-91217688431137472382009-05-07T03:03:00.000-07:002009-05-07T03:03:00.000-07:00Perhaps even better is Scheme (albeit a version of...Perhaps even better is Scheme (albeit a version of Lisp), since it provides full access to <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation" REL="nofollow">Continuations</A>, and perhaps one could say one doesn't really understand programming unless one understands these things.<br /><br />"Only a few programming languages provide full, unrestrained access to the continuation of a computation step. Scheme was the first full production system, providing first catch and then call/cc. Bruce Duba introduced call/cc into SML. Some Smalltalk and Python implementations provide similar access to continuations, though nothing as systematic as Scheme continuations."<br /><BR>Philip Thrifthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03021615111948806998noreply@blogger.com