6 May
                
                    2012
                
            
            
                6 May
                
                '12
                
            
            
            
        
    
                6:22 p.m.
            
        On 7/05/2012, at 10:17 AM, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
The 'jumpout' function in Pop2 was basically an early adoption of the idea of continuations via Landin's "J-functions"; it was used as an exception handling mechanism and that was in the early 70s.
Correction: apparently that should read 'in 1968'.