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
Format: djvu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Page: 526
ISBN: 0521562473, 9780521562478


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. I find The Little Schemer and The Seasoned Schemer to be very good complements to SICP and I recommend them wholeheartedly for everyone. Lisp in Small Pieces is like that; it's more about a cute way to teach things that bends the mind than having fun in exploring design trade-offs. Get Queinnec's "Lisp in Small Pieces". I doubt I would agree to shell out the $80 it costs had I not had the RAC money in PayPal already. One of my New Year's goals is to re-read Lisp in Small Pieces and implement all 11 interpreters and 2 compilers. The book is just under 500 pages of bootstrap. It was written by someone who knows his stuff and knows how to teach it. In other words, it is not really about truly building models. Now, the programming concepts book that I really want would be the successor to Lisp in Small Pieces (ISBN 0-521-56247-3), but AFAICT, it hasn't been finished. (I hope to understand "Lisp in Small Pieces" someday. 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. This entry was posted in Book by tkg.