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

For some reason, amazon.ca has Lisp in Small Pieces by Christian Queinnec for CDN$3.95. Got started on a major preoccupation - a deep study of Lisp In Small Pieces. 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. An _environment_ assoicates entities with names. One of the best approach to language implementation I ever came across! À�Lisp in Small Pieces』より. 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. 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. Lisp in Small Pieces is like that; it's more about a cute way to teach things that bends the mind than having fun in exploring design trade-offs. Click here to download: scheme1.ss (5 KB). In other words, it is not really about truly building models.