LISP and Symbolic Computation, 6(3/4)233-248

The Discoveries of Continuations

John C. Reynolds, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890

Abstract: We give a brief account of the discoveries of continuations and related concepts by A. van Wijngaarden, A.W. Mazurkiewicz, F.L. Morris, C.P. Wadsworth, J.H. Morris, M.J. Fischer, and S.K. Abdali.

Keywords: semantics, continuation, continuation-passing style

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