LISP in small pieces by Christian Queinnec, Kathleen Callaway

LISP in small pieces



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LISP in small pieces Christian Queinnec, Kathleen Callaway ebook
Page: 526
Format: djvu
ISBN: 0521562473, 9780521562478
Publisher: Cambridge University Press


See Lisp in Small Pieces by Christian Queinnec. The book is no longer listed with a price, nor is it listed as available, except from other sellers. Easy to compile (most implementations of Lisp are written almost or entirely in Lisp, and the “reference” implementations usually include a compiler – see Sussmann's Scheme book or 'LiSP in Small Pieces' for examples). (I hope to understand "Lisp in Small Pieces" someday. It was written by someone who knows his stuff and knows how to teach it. What features from R5RS would have to be removed if one wanted a referentially transparent scheme? If you are writing code that needs to live and is critical to the organization, hire literate programmers and an English major as an editor-in-chief. I refer you to the excellent book "Lisp in Small Pieces". Described as 'mind blowing' by some – particular highlights include the ycombinator and the metacircular interpreter. Chapter 5 of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and chapter 7 of Lisp in Small Pieces both present byte-code interpreting virtual machines for Scheme that are implemented in Scheme. You might not care about Lisp but this is an excellent example of literate programming. The book is just under 500 pages of bootstrap. In Lisp In Small Pieces, Christian states that assignment, side-effects, and continuations break referential transparency. Get Queinnec's "Lisp in Small Pieces". In Clojure you can find the following online: Chapter . If you find some – let me know and I'll post it. It looks like the Lisp In Small Pieces for $3.95 craze has met its end. An old favourite for many people who studied this in College or at home – The Little Schemer is the way many people have started the road to LISP. Caveat: this is not a best-of nor a comprehensive list of Lisp books; it is merely a selection of Lisp books you may not have heard of or that special to me in some way. I've struggled to find decent chunks of Lisp in Small pieces in Clojure code online.