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Elevator Pitch: Continuations for Web Apps

Saturday, September 27, 2003

A couple of days ago, I mentioned that nobody seems to have come up with a good elevator pitch explanation on the benefits of using continuations for web applications. Avi Bryant uses the following catchy one (which is probably as good a one-line explanation as I've come across so far):

"Continuations bring precisely the same benefits to traditional web development that subroutines bring to GOTOs"

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