title: What's the difference between a Continuation (as in Smalltalk) and an interrupt (as in an Assembler)?
body: <p>I'm struggling to understand the concept of Continuations (as used in Seaside with Smalltalk).  A snippet from Wikipedia says:</p>
  
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    <p>"... refer to first-class continuations, which are constructs that give a programming language the ability to save the execution state at any point and return to that point at a later point in the program..."</p>
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  <p>Isn't this simply another way of expressing what an assembler programmer would do when programming an interrupt?  Or have I completely missed the point!</p>