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

September 6, 2007 at 3:23 PM · Robby said. You might not care about Lisp but this is an excellent example of literate programming. McCarthy He does a great job in Lisp in Small Pieces, but it's building on the foundation that McCarthy layed down. While I have started reading Lisp in Small Pieces, it hasn't had quite the impact on me. One of my New Year's goals is to re-read Lisp in Small Pieces and implement all 11 interpreters and 2 compilers. I doubt I would agree to shell out the $80 it costs had I not had the RAC money in PayPal already. 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. Writing a recursive function to perform that calculation is pretty straight forward, and once we put all of these pieces together in our create-world routine, we have a working proof of concept. The book is no longer listed with a price, nor is it listed as available, except from other sellers. I remember reading in Lisp In Small Pieces that CDR is statistically more often encountered that CAR So my final answer is "less CARs than CDRs in the source code of PLT". February 24th, 2013 reviewer Leave a comment Go to comments. But I definitely wouldn't say that its standard has been written with optimization in mind. 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. See “Lisp in Small Pieces” or “Implementing Elliptic Curve Cryptography” for real literate programs as books. I refer you to the excellent book "Lisp in Small Pieces". The following code snipped from the REPL prompt We're glossing over a few details here, but if you have a little experience working with Lisp then you should have a pretty good idea of how to implement the above. I have developed what I call the “Hawaii” test for a good literate program. LISP in small pieces : PDF eBook Download. It looks like the Lisp In Small Pieces for $3.95 craze has met its end. Scheme is probably easier to implement than CL, because it is much, much smaller. By Christian Queinnec, Kathleen Callaway Publisher: Cambridge University Press.