LISP in small pieces book

LISP in small pieces Christian Queinnec, Kathleen Callaway
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Christian Queinnec, Lisp in Small Pieces. McCarthy He does a great job in Lisp in Small Pieces, but it's building on the foundation that McCarthy layed down. See "http://daly.axiom-developer.org/litprog.html" for an example using HTML. My faithful readers, will get to see them first. But I definitely wouldn't say that its standard has been written with optimization in mind. Currently Lisp in Small Pieces is number 3. Scheme is probably easier to implement than CL, because it is much, much smaller. The great idea of quotation at least traces back to Lisp, where program is also a kind of data – the execution behavior of a piece of program is completely controllable by the user, just treat it as input data and write a custom evaluator for it. €The Anatomy of Lisp” by John Allen. Kamin, “Programming Languages, An Interpreter-Based Approach”, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1990. For awhile last week the book Lisp in Small Pieces was the best selling book on the Canada Amazon.com website, out selling Harry Potter. The Hawaii test is the key criteria to measure whether your literate program is successful. See "Lisp in Small Pieces" for a great example. I am actually selling these items so I can pay Dreamhost for another year of hosting, so it's for a good cause. The default Lisp evaluator is eval, we can easily write a Remember F# has a rich set of syntax while a domain language takes a small subset of it is usually enough expressive. While I have started reading Lisp in Small Pieces, it hasn't had quite the impact on me.