The proverb ‘owning a hammer doesn’t make one an architect’ is especially true with respect to object technology. Knowing an object-oriented language (such as Java) is a necessary but insufficient first step to create object systems. Knowing how to ‘think in objects’ is critical!
Continuation Sandwich
I’ve often come across the word ‘Continuations’ in the programming language discussions but I never made up my mind to investigate what it means. Interestingly while reading up a bit about Ruby I hopped to this delicious description of ‘First-class continuations”:
“Say you’re in the kitchen in front of the refrigerator, thinking about a sandwich. You take a continuation right there and stick it in your pocket. Then you get some turkey and bread out of the refrigerator and make yourself a sandwich, which is now sitting on the counter. You invoke the continuation in your pocket, and you find yourself standing in front of the refrigerator again, thinking about a sandwich. But fortunately, there’s a sandwich on the counter, and all the materials used to make it are gone. So you eat it. :-)”
Source: Wikipedia
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