Articles

Fun with Continuations
Continuations offer the ability to persist program state, which gives you the ability to employ a number of sophisticated techniques in your development. Sleep, a Perl-like scripting language that runs on the JVM, offers first-class support for continuations. In this article, Raphael Mudge shows you how to use continuations in Sleep and what you can do with them. Jul. 24, 2008

Perl on Java? An Introduction to the Sleep Language
Perl is renowned for its "whipitupitude," meaning its ability to get a lot done with a small amount of code, particularly when it comes to regular expressions and working with I/O. Now the language Sleep tries to take the best of Perl and combine it with the ability to use Java objects from scripts. Raphael Mudge shows how it works. Jul. 14, 2005