LISP in small pieces by Christian Queinnec, Kathleen Callaway

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

It looks like the Lisp In Small Pieces for $3.95 craze has met its end. 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. Chapter 5 of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and chapter 7 of Lisp in Small Pieces both present byte-code interpreting virtual machines for Scheme that are implemented in Scheme. In Lisp In Small Pieces, Christian states that assignment, side-effects, and continuations break referential transparency. 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. I'm actually not that fond of TAOCP. 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. This entry was posted in Book by tkg. 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. What features from R5RS would have to be removed if one wanted a referentially transparent scheme? The book is no longer listed with a price, nor is it listed as available, except from other sellers.