LISP in small pieces by Christian Queinnec, Kathleen Callaway

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

Lisp: An interpreter for the Scheme dialect. Lisp In Small Pieces supports only quote , if , begin , set! In Lisp In Small Pieces, Christian states that assignment, side-effects, and continuations break referential transparency. Christian Quenniac's Lisp in Small Pieces is a good reference for interpreting and compiling Lisp. Today I made the first order – “Lisp in Small Pieces” – it's just the kind of book to buy as a special present to myself. I'm actually not that fond of TAOCP. Queineec, C., Lisp in small pieces, Cambridge University press, Cambridge, 1996. I bought Lisp In Small Pieces, read 19 pages, then struck out on my own, writing a headcase macro to factor out the repetition from the SICP code, and an interpreter. Quote first: (define quote-expression? What features from R5RS would have to be removed if one wanted a referentially transparent scheme? One of my New Year's goals is to re-read Lisp in Small Pieces and implement all 11 interpreters and 2 compilers. Literate, Racket-Styled Interpreter from Ch. €It is widely held among members of the MIT Lisp community that FEXPR, NLAMBDA, and related concepts could be omitted from the Lisp language with no loss of generality and little loss of expressive power, and that doing so would make a general improvement in the quality and reliability of program-manipulating programs.” . I find The Little Schemer and The Seasoned Schemer to be very good complements to SICP and I recommend them wholeheartedly for everyone. I doubt I would agree to shell out the $80 it costs had I not had the RAC money in PayPal already. Java: Written in If you want a mercilessly small, easily modifiable version, this is it. Otherwise I would be hard pressed to choose something like The Art of the Metaobject Protocol, The wizard book, or maybe Lisp In Small Pieces.