Continuations are abstract representations of a program's control state and can be accessed by the programming language. They are useful for encoding control mechanisms like exceptions, generators, and coroutines. The "current continuation" refers to the continuation derived from the current point in a program's execution, and first-class continuations allow saving and returning to execution states at any point in the program.
UC San Diego
Winter 2017
UC San Diego's CSE 130 provides an overview of basic concepts and design trade-offs related to programming languages. The course covers a wide range of topics like scope, storage management, exceptions, and concurrency, through practical implementation.
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Fall 2022
Stanford University's CS 242 teaches the basics of programming language theory, its applications, and future trends. It focuses on the practical and theoretical understanding of programming languages, covering typed lambda calculus, state, monads, and more.
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