- Author
- Posted by swatson741, with replies from many commenters
- Published
- 17 September 2025
- Kind
- Hacker News discussion thread
- Original
- news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45271493
- Subject
- Programming languages and types
What it is
Swatson741 posted a link to a blog review at swatson555.github.io. Many users replied. The thread debates the book and the techniques it teaches.
What it says
- Commenters dispute the review's claim that no code exists. They link a repository.
- Commenter pizlonator argues continuation passing style is dead as an intermediate form and SSA won.
- Commenter cwzwarich says the local CPS transform is more popular than ever.
- Commenter peterfirefly asks about branch prediction, and cwzwarich says AArch64 hint bits allow it.
- Commenter mrkeen bought the book to learn the CPS transform. Later mrkeen switched to ANF for typing reasons.
- Commenter tikotus says CPS makes async/await easy to implement without call/cc.
- Commenter dmvdoug objects that the review judges a 1992 book by 2025 standards.
What evidence it gives
The thread offers technical opinion, personal anecdotes and links to papers. It has no measurements.
Interests and limits
The review and the book were not read for this page. Commenters disagree on several technical points. Claims such as CPS being dead are opinions from anonymous replies.