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


February 24th, 2013 reviewer Leave a comment Go to comments. Queineec, C., Lisp in small pieces, Cambridge University press, Cambridge, 1996. As discussed in extraordinary detail in Lisp in Small Pieces, but I don't recall whether the latter (or anything else) examines the connection. The book is no longer listed with a price, nor is it listed as available, except from other sellers. €�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.” . By Christian Queinnec, Kathleen Callaway Publisher: Cambridge University Press. It seems to me that there is a clear connection with reflective towers, e.g. Get Queinnec's "Lisp in Small Pieces". The book is just under 500 pages of bootstrap. McCarthy He does a great job in Lisp in Small Pieces, but it's building on the foundation that McCarthy layed down. It was written by someone who knows his stuff and knows how to teach it. A guy I know ordered it and he reports it's a full, normal copy. 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. For some reason, amazon.ca has Lisp in Small Pieces by Christian Queinnec for CDN$3.95. It looks like the Lisp In Small Pieces for $3.95 craze has met its end. LISP in small pieces : PDF eBook Download. While I have started reading Lisp in Small Pieces, it hasn't had quite the impact on me.