Apr 15
Not just for CS students
Programmatic techniques that have until recently been the preserve of the CS students and the scripting elite are slowly trickling down to mainstream languages. Java proved you could have a common, not-entirely-nauseating general purpose language that utilised garbage collection. Now, the very popular Python and Ruby scripting languages are bringing day to day programmers in contact with seemingly scary concepts like closures and continuations.
Well, be scared no more! An excellent post “Continuations-for-Curmudgeons” gives a basic introduction to the concepts without the heavy intellectual overhead normally found in articles of this type. It will pay to become more familar with these powerful ideas, as they will be trickling down to “day to day” languages over the next few years.
