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David Raab
Personal blog · sidburn.github.io/blogprogramming
David Raab's personal blog at sidburn.github.io covers programming. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
Linked as a practical aid for understanding continuations as a way to defer computation when data is not yet available. The post uses F# examples on fold continuations.
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What Hacker News says?
I only started to use continuations in practice (and not too often, they can be hard to debug) after understanding that they can be used as a tool to defer computation when you don't have all the data you need at a particular point in a program. Here's an article (uses F#) that really helped me: https://sidburn.github.io/blog/2016/04/16/fold-continuations
Comment linking /blog/2016/04/16/fold-continuations
on “What’s in a Continuation (2016)”Submitted Mutability vs. Immutability: Valid objects as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Immutability and Pure Functions (for OOP) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion