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i think i only fully understood the various CEK/CE/* machines in the "essence of compiling with continuations" paper just now

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Implementing a CEK machine made Scheme click for me. Esp. relation btwn. C stacks and GC, and continuations vs closures.

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I feel lucky to have learned about CEK-based implementations before CPS-based continuations-are-closures impl.