less is more

Getting closer…

Here’s a preview of the front cover.

We just sent the final two chapters (8 and 1) to the reviewers.

It feels great!

The first draft of the book’s preface is also in place. This weekend and the next week will be devoted to the two appendices.

Also, based on an earlier feedback from the reviewers, one of the chapters of the book will be undergoing a major editing surgery next week.

June 15 is the absolute drop dead date for submitting the manuscript (with tech edits) to the publisher.

Implementing first class continuations on the runtimes like the CLR and JVM which lack any intrinsic support for it, is a non trivial task (especially saving and reinstalling the stack). The Northeastern Scheme folks have used the CLR’s exception handling machinery to implement continuations on the CLR. Read it here and here. Joe Duffy calls it a “beautiful hack” and I couldn’t agree more.