words of power from the ancient world

Hammering my way through a posting on the JVM and continuations, I realized again how oddly poetic are some of our terms of art. Some of them seem to have been with us from the dawn of the single-threaded stored-program computing machine. Terms like “continuation&rdquo, “closure&rdquo, “thunk&rdquo, even “call&rdquo and “loop&rdquo are metaphoric, evocative, polyvalent, elusive of final definition. What I mean is, they are poetic...[Read More]

Posted by jrose [General] ( March 29, 2008 12:28 PM ) Permalink | Comments[3]