olandgren: About continuations, there is a undergrad course in Programming Language (Theory) at DIKU which have some on-line lecture notes on continuations, among other things.

[ Correction: I s/CORBA/ORBit/'ed in various places. ]

Hacking: [Beware: ugly-ish picturesque langauge] Blech -- I thought I was going to have some Good Wholesome Fun(tm) fiddling with CORBA in Python. Then I discovered that PyORBit is (1) completely undocumented and (2) sucks goats nuts. orbit-python OTOH needs me to patch automake before I can build it, could they at the least not have include pre-autogenned files?

I better see go see if a patched automake will make orbit-python (and hopefully me) Happy.