Passing DBs through continuations

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Passing DBs Through Continuations Dedicated to the Minnowbrook Analytic Reasoning Seminar with special thanks to Kris Micinski and Michael Ballantyne Suppose you want to write a database. You'd probably start by implementing relational algebra operators — projection, filter, join, etc. The easy way is to implement them as functions that take in tables and return tables, and assemble them into a larger expression. That was how Prela worked in its first incarnation. The code was clean, but it was

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