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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Continuations
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 01:58:25 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 09:38:31 +0000, aph wrote:

> But I can't immediately think of any language with
> continuations and without GC. They kinda go together.

Instead of “GC”, I would say “dynamic allocation”. Consider languages like 
Python and Perl, which do reference-counting as a first resort, only 
falling back to full-on garbage collection when reference-counting is no 
longer enough. That gives you the best of both worlds.

Of course, neither of of them has continuations as such, or at least 
fully-general ones: Python does have both “generator” functions and the 
newer async/await-style “stackless” coroutines.