[racket] Resources for understanding Racket’s language model?

Ben, on the first site you can find my papers dating back to the time 
when I discovered prompt and functional continuations. The papers -- 
especially those with Dorai's name on them -- contain some examples
on how to use them and what for but they mostly focus on 'design 
theory'. 

If you are interested in implementation, Matthew's paper is critical. 
Yes, it looks like it is theory but the executable theory is really used 
to implement/double-check the concepts. 

If you want examples on how to use delimited continuations, I recommend
a walk through the literature on programming with processes vs events, 
but starting from the Mach 4 papers. The latter re-discover my original
('84) motivation for inventing prompts (OS-level concepts), which ironically 
I had suppressed from the POPL ('88) paper. The series ends with a Haskell
paper that presents a monad for bridging the gap between the two styles. 
(Not Racket language model per se but it's not clear what you're really
interested in.) 


-- Matthias




On Nov 5, 2013, at 8:01 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at cs.indiana.edu> wrote:

> In general, papers here: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/ and also
> http://www.cs.utah.edu/~mflatt/publications/index.html and
> http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/~robby/pubs/ cover what's in Racket.
> 
> For delimited continuations, the relevant paper is:
> http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/delim-cont/
> 
> Sam
> 
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Ben Duan <yfefyf at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I have some difficulties understanding “1 Language Model” of the Racket
>> Reference. I want some detailed explanations on some concepts like “Prompts,
>> Delimited Continuations, and Barriers” etc. Do you have any recommended
>> resources like papers or books for me to start with?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Ben
>> 
>> 
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