Continuations offer the ability to persist program state, which gives you the ability to employ a number of sophisticated techniques in your development. Sleep, a Perl-like scripting language that runs on the JVM, offers first-class support for continuations. In this article, Raphael Mudge shows...
Perl is renowned for its "whipitupitude," meaning its ability to get a lot done with a small amount of code, particularly when it comes to regular expressions and working with I/O. Now the language Sleep tries to take the best of Perl and combine it with the ability to use Java objects from...