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

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. 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. Knott.pdf LISP in small pieces - Queinnec C.djvu 8.1. €�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.” . Lisp in Small Pieces builds entire compilers ;; based upon this idea. I am actually selling these items so I can pay Dreamhost for another year of hosting, so it's for a good cause. Described as 'mind blowing' by some – particular highlights include the ycombinator and the metacircular interpreter. My faithful readers, will get to see them first. Queineec, C., Lisp in small pieces, Cambridge University press, Cambridge, 1996. Scheme An Introduction to Scheme and its Implementation.pdf. McCarthy He does a great job in Lisp in Small Pieces, but it's building on the foundation that McCarthy layed down. If you find some – let me know and I'll post it. I've struggled to find decent chunks of Lisp in Small pieces in Clojure code online. I doubt I would agree to shell out the $80 it costs had I not had the RAC money in PayPal already. While I have started reading Lisp in Small Pieces, it hasn't had quite the impact on me. Homoiconicity is what makes lisp so appealing to me, ;; far more than most other languages. In Clojure you can find the following online: Chapter .