On: The Evolution Of C#

[ColourCoder]

It's pretty simple, "await/async" rewrites normal-looking code to continuation passing code the same way "yield return/yield break" rewrites normal-looking code to be a state-machine.

Jon Skeet has written a number of insanely detailed articles on it.

[barrydahlberg → ColourCoder]

That makes sense and sounds a lot simpler than how I was trying to read the samples at first.