Re: Who 'invented' CPS?

Pascal Costanza <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:08:49 +0100
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On 29 Nov 2007, at 22:00, Joe Marshall wrote:

> I'm gonna guess that Hewitt did.

:-D

Neelakantan Krishnaswami sent me the link to a paper about "The  
Discoveries of Continuations" at http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ 
261425.html which also covers CPS, and the first one was actually van  
Wijngaarden in 1964, but apparently it was also independently  
discovered by others later on...


Pascal

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