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Anton Antimo <anton@safunu.org> writes:
> Donald Knuth has been documenting and investigating programming
> techniques forever in his monumental set called ``The Art of Computer
> Programming''.  I suppose he must have in his own terms what is now
> called continuations.  In which part section of which book is the Scheme
> call/cc primitive studied?  

I think the closest would be volume 1, section 1.4.2 on coroutines.

  Regards,
    Stefan