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


One of my New Year's goals is to re-read Lisp in Small Pieces and implement all 11 interpreters and 2 compilers. In Lisp In Small Pieces, Christian states that assignment, side-effects, and continuations break referential transparency. Get Queinnec's "Lisp in Small Pieces". Christian Queinnec, Lisp in Small Pieces. Kamin, “Programming Languages, An Interpreter-Based Approach”, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1990. My faithful readers, will get to see them first. 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 am actually selling these items so I can pay Dreamhost for another year of hosting, so it's for a good cause. €�One of my New Year's goals is to re-read Lisp in Small Pieces and implement all 11 interpreters and 2 compilers. So one would expect that the probability of buying the "Blue Book" given a purchase of the "Lisp in Small Pieces" would be much higher than the probability of purchasing Harry Potter. It was written by someone who knows his stuff and knows how to teach it. €�The Anatomy of Lisp” by John Allen. The book is just under 500 pages of bootstrap. What features from R5RS would have to be removed if one wanted a referentially transparent scheme?