[plt-scheme] Serializable continuations?

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 10 10:40:43 EST 2006

Yes, I think it was him and Alessandro ...

On Feb 10, 2006, at 10:33 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:

>> On serializable continuations: They used to be in some funky form in
>> Lisp machines (of course not for call/cc purposes) and they definitely
>> showed up in Kali. I have also seen them in an SML/NJ dialect around
>> 1992 at the ERC in Munich; they used them for migrating computations
>> from one machine to another, and they really loved the fact that 
>> SML/NJ
>> had call/cc even if it was type unsafe at the time.
>
> I bet you're thinking of Fritz Knabe's work.
>
> Shriram
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