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Wow, continuations are pretty awesome, because with them you can build any control structure you like. Now if Java only had macros, so that homegrown control structures could be concise & succinct, like built-ins …

It's kinda of funny how languages are slowly becoming more and more Lisp-like — even Lisp is available, still offering what it offers.

As an aside: argh, in Firefox it stole the spacebar, so there's no way to scroll down the page, even if I click outside of the video.

Why do web pages do that?



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