On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 6:02 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
 
     A computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't program
     state machines.

     Alan Cox

Orly?  Try embedding an LL(1) parser in an event loop that gives you a new event every time a block is read off the disk.

Event loops are just manual CPS transformations of coroutines -- but why do the transformation manually instead of having your compiler do it for you?