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Re: continuations and threads Matthias Felleisen 21 Mar 2000 13:33 UTC

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   From: xxxxxx@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor])
   Date: 21 Mar 2000 13:35:12 +0100
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   >>>>> "Matthias" == Matthias Felleisen <xxxxxx@cs.rice.edu> writes:

   Matthias> Marc, my gut feeling is that exceptions and threads would
   Matthias> take you far.

   Sorry Matthias for being flippant, but in my mind, that's tantamount
   to saying that a Turing machine would take you far.

It's not. Read "On the expressive power of programming languages."

   I actually have at least one application (PGG) which is really dependent
   upon CALL/CC, but beside that, I often just plain *want* to use CALL/CC
   even when I could, in principle, with some more thought, use something
   else.

   Anyway, this discussion really belongs some other place.

Yes, but where else do serious people discuss such a question?