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He's also the originator of the concept of a continuation, which Scheme exploits ruthlessly (though arguably not enough, except for Guile, Racket, and a few others which support delimited continuations).



According to John Reynolds' history "The discoveries of continuations", Strachey wasn't one of the several significant developers of the concept.

https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/papers-we-love/...


According to that history, even if Strachey was not the originator, he played the most important role in explaining them and making them known to a much wider audience, through his influential published papers.




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