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==In Web development== One area that has seen practical use of continuations is in [[Web programming]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://readscheme.org/xml-web/ |title=Reading list on XML and Web Programming |access-date=2006-08-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100614042239/http://readscheme.org/xml-web/ |archive-date=2010-06-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://double.co.nz/pdf/continuations.pdf |title=Web Programming with Continuations |access-date=2012-09-05 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20120905083130/http://double.co.nz/pdf/continuations.pdf |archive-date=2012-09-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The use of continuations shields the programmer from the [[stateless server|stateless]] nature of the [[HTTP]] protocol. In the traditional model of web programming, the lack of state is reflected in the program's structure, leading to code constructed around a model that lends itself very poorly to expressing computational problems. Thus continuations enable code that has the useful properties associated with [[inversion of control]], while avoiding its problems. "Inverting back the inversion of control or, Continuations versus page-centric programming"<ref name=Queinnec>Christian.Queinnec [https://pages.lip6.fr/Christian.Queinnec/PDF/www.pdf (2003) Inverting back the inversion of control or, Continuations versus page-centric programming]</ref> is a paper that provides a good introduction to continuations applied to web programming.
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